Sexism
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Guided Home to Port: Assata Shakur, State Terror, and Black Resistance
By Connie Wun Domestic Terror: On May 2, 2013, the FBI placed Assata Shakur on its Most Wanted Terrorist list and, with the help of...
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Celebrating Assata Shakur and the Black Radical Tradition
Assata Shakur’s political thought and activism has captured the imagination of artists, activists, women and men around the world. As African activists, we have learned from...
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3 Reasons Why You Should Be Paying Attention to Moral Mondays in North Carolina
“Grotesque” is the word the New York Times used in an editorial today to describe North Carolina politics. I can think of some others. In...
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The Downfalls of Feminism and Why I Am Still a Feminist
By Eren Cervantes-Altamirano I knew I was a feminist when I was in the third grade. Then, I was an aspiring class president in a classroom...
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"20 Feet From Stardom" & the Black Female Gaze
In the 1972 song “Take a Walk on the Wild Side” Lou Reed evokes the paternalistic image of “colored girls” cooing in the background to...
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Is a picture worth a 1000 words? Race and the politics of mourning
Hank Willis Thomas A couple weeks back, Melissa Harris Perry and her guests discussed the power of images, focusing on the debate as to whether...
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Against Patriarchy: Tools for Men to Further Feminist Revolution*
By Chris Crass For all of us who are men who believe in social justice, who want healthy and beautiful lives for our loved ones,...
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Feminists We Love: Michele Wallace (Video)
Michele Wallace, Professor of English, Women’s Studies and Film Studies at the City College of New York and the City University of NY Graduate Center,...
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Gender Policing the Vegan Woman
By Corey Lee Wrenn I have always used my Facebook account as a tool for social activism. Opening up oneself to the public world of...
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Angelina Jolie’s Breast Removal: How One Woman’s Bravery Was Met With White, Male Arrogance
By Bill Patrick Straight, white guys often seem to think that we know what’s best for everyone else. We love to go around telling people...
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False “Purity” Notions Can Affect Victims’ Responses to Trauma
By Matt Atkinson At a recent healing retreat for survivors of sexual assault, one woman confided that she craved every bit of the healing, friendship,...
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The Four Letter Word
By Niama Sandy I went on a date on Christmas day. We went to the Black Cat’s “James Brown Death-Mas” party. My date was a...
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Are All the Women Still White? Kermit Gosnell, “Back Alley” Abortions, and the Politics of Motherhood
By j.n. salters Last week, Kermit Gosnell—the African-American “late-term abortionist” who delivered live babies and then stuck scissors in the backs of their necks and...
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Featured Poet: Aditi Rao
By Aditi Rao Dear Mr. Yadav, I too am an Indian Woman “Referring to the recent ‘Slut Walk’ held in the Capital, Mr. Lalu...
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To Our Sisters, Morehouse
By Kalima DeSuze, Nicole Patin and Farah Tanis on behalf of the members of Black Women’s Blueprint To Our Sisters, To those who have survived...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Shattering Silence (Video)
By Molly Baker On April 23, University of Arizona student Dean Saxton, better known as Brother Dean, stood on a bench brandishing a sign that...
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An Introduction to TFW's Forum on Assata Shakur: America's Grammar Book on Black Women and Terrorism
Assata Shakur has been given many names over the past four decades. Her political allies in the 1970s struggle for black liberation knew her as...
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Celebrating the Extraordinary Who Are Relegated to Ordinary: A Tribute to Rebecca White Simmons Chapman and Juanita Cranford Robinson Watson
Too often, we do not celebrate the extraordinary individuals who, because of their race, gender, and/or socio-economic standing, lived what appeared to be ordinary lives....
