Racism
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“Infiltrate What Exists, Innovate What Doesn’t”: Mentoring in the Academy, Leading By Example Part 1
In her 2010 presidential address to the American Studies Association, Ruthie Wilson Gilmore invited us to “infiltrate what exists, innovate what doesn’t.” I achieved this...
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Op Ed: Why On Earth Do We Let Colleges and Universities “Handle” Their Own Rape Cases?
By Kari O’Driscoll On Tuesday, April 29, the White House issued a set of guidelines designed to address the hot-button issue of rape on college...
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Who’s Still a Slave? Contemporary Black Women’s Rhetoric, Art, and Global Realities
By Janell Hobson “Are you still a slave?” That was the title of a forum on May 6, 2014 at the New School, featuring black...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Women with Bad Aim
By Colleen Ladd A group of girls stand in line at the back of a large house with white French doors, the only thing that...
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SNL’s Leslie Jones Offers Anachronistic Jokes on Slavery
By Sheila Bustillos-Reynolds Critics are chiming in about several distasteful slavery jokes made on Saturday Night Live’s May 3rd show. Leslie Jones, a writer at...
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Disentangling Radical Love from Narcissism
By Lisa (Leigh) Patel Sometimes when some folks approach me out of an assumed shared cultural identity, I get tight. Recently another South Asian woman...
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the Double-Bind of Muslim Women’s Rights
By Rochelle Terman Last month, Brandeis University announced that it had reversed its decision to award Ayaan Hirsi Ali an honorary degree following grassroots organizing...
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TFW’s Aishah Shahidah Simmons participated in Philly Rally to #BringBackOurGirls
On Saturday, May 3, 2014, documentary filmmaker and TFW Associate Editor Aishah Shahidah Simmons participated in the “Rock A Gele For Our Girls” Rally held in...
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No One is Disposable: Dean Spade, Reina Gossett and CeCe McDonald Discuss Prison Abolition
By Roges Ahnet No One Is Disposable: Everyday Acts of Prison Abolition highlights the importance of utilizing a prison abolitionist framework to confront and dismantle...
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TFW’s Heidi R. Lewis to Teach in Berlin
This summer, TFW Associate Editor Heidi R. Lewis will be teaching a course in Berlin on Afro-German Women, Feminism and Berlin.
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F-Bombs to Live By: Feminism, Faith and Functional practices
By Stephany Rose I don’t hate white men. Though having to directly assert such a position is evidence for why my work of Abolishing White...
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For Cláudia Silva Ferreira: Death and the Collective Black Female Body
By Christen Smith What do we want from each other After we have told our stories do we want to be healed do we want...
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Feminists We Love: Katarzyna Marciniak
If feminist rage is something feared and often mocked (in order to belittle its power), then feminist immigrant rage is definitely a hard-core offense. We...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Woman Made From Iron
By Mohadesa Najumi Dedicated to my mother. They try to shrink you. Tame you. Convince you that all your rage is a product of your...
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Personal is Political: An Unfamiliar Gaze: A Muslim American in France and the 10 year Anniversary of the Veil Ban
I find myself unwittingly pulled into an old and tense national debate, laïcité vs. Muslim visibility, where I once again find myself on the not...
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North Dakota Oil Boom: Frontier Mythology and Gender Oppression
By Samuel M Clevenger In the past few years, Williston, North Dakota and the surrounding area has become a “modern day Gold Rush,” a “new...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Finding Your Different
By Vaidehi Mujumdar We’ve already buried so much of our different, it feels so hard to find. Almost every day, my friend and I exchange...
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Racism, Sexism, and the Myth of the “Confidence Gap”
By Kim Tran Last year Sheryl Sandberg told women to “lean in.” This year Katty Kay and Claire Shipman are telling women worldwide to “stand...
