Politics
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TFW Forum on Palestine
Introduction: TFW Editorial Collective Member, Darnell L. Moore, recently returned from a trip to Israel/Palestine as a member of the first LGBTQI delegation to the...
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UN Agencies Address Maternal Health In Haiti
Two years since the earthquake in Haiti UN Women and UNFPA Haiti have worked to improve conditions for women, who still face rapes and gender-based...
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Call for Submissions: Forum on Mental Health and Illness
The Feminist Wire is proud to announce that it will host a forum on mental health and illness. Because the topic of mental health can...
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A Fly Girl: Black Sexual Politics and Beyoncé
By David J. Leonard and Kristal Moore Clemons A newly discovered horse fly by Australian scientist Bryan Lessard has become global media fodder. While usually not a...
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Gabrielle Giffords will resign to focus on her recovery
Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords announced on her website Sunday that she will resign from Congress this week to continue her recuperation from the brain injury...
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Ethnic Studies, MLK & Great Men
In one of the first scenes of the 2006 film Walkout, the day-glo radiance of L.A. suffuses a group of Lincoln High School seniors discussing...
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Trust Women
Here at TFW, we trust women. That’s why we want you to know that January 20th – 27th is Trust Women Week. The Silver Ribbon...
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Who is Killing Us
By Terrion L. Williamson On April 1, 1979, 1,500 people gathered in the streets of Boston to memorialize the lives of six black women who...
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The Trouble with "Flip-flopping"?
Newt has taken to apologizing, but not for cheating on his wife as she was violently ill or participating in the Clinton witch hunts which...
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Video: Today TFW salutes Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlvEiBRgp2M&feature=related We (still) have miles to go before we sleep~TFW Collective
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Women with Walkers and Wheelchairs Close San Francisco Bank Of America Branch
Tita Caldwell, 80, led the charge of women with walkers and wheelchairs, against Bank of America in San Francisco, CA. last week, explaining that she...
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“Oh Hello No”: Homophobia and those t-shirts ain’t no joke
By David J. Leonard The college football season came to an end last night. It marked the conclusion of a bowl season that has been...
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Brazil’s Insidious New Pregnancy Registration Law Violates the Privacy of Women
Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first female president, was gathering a group a conservative legislators to stealthily assist in drafting and enacting a Ceauşescu-like law requiring all...
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Adieu to ‘Mademoiselle’: French Town Bans ‘Sexist’ Term
Cesson-Sévigné, a suburb of Rennes, France, has banned the use of the title “mademoiselle” on all official forms starting January 1, 2012. Two feminist groups...
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Iowa Caucus: What's in it for Women?
By Soraya Chemaly, TFW special correspondant The U.S. ranks 40th in the world for women’s political empowerment and we’re losing ground. Fortieth. This ranking, based on 2010 data,...
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Rep. Jim Sensenbrenners' Posterior Fixation
Last week Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner was overheard saying that First Lady Michelle Obama should attend to her “large posterior” before lecturing Americans on eating right. ...
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Remedy for a Homophobic/Biphobic/Queerphobic/ Transphobic Naija
By Adaku Chinenye Utah On Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 my country, Nigeria, passed an anti-gay bill through the Senate that would criminalize same-sex marriages and civil...
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Mentor or Ares?: Some Other Considerations on Mentoring
In his 2003 State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush urged “the men and women of America” to mentor. He noted that “ne mentor,...