Sexism
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Waking Up to Rape Culture in Asheville
The first time I learned about rape culture was on the school bus. Soon after leaving the school parking lot, the boys in the row...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: DEAR SOCIETY, PLEASE CHANGE
By Jennifer Egbebike Dear Parents, When did it all begin? When did I start believing that in order to be an asset to society, I...
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The Pope and His “Patriarchy Problem,” Again
By Zillah Eisenstein I am writing this on the train traveling from Milan to Venice, Italy. Many people here are excited that Pope Francis arrives...
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The Women’s Mosque of America: Understanding Diversity and Empowerment
By Madihah Akhter One Friday afternoon, as I was settling down to listen to a sermon in my local mosque in Orange County, California, a woman...
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How Nike’s Neoliberal Feminism Came to Rule the Global South
By Maria Hengeveld The first time Nike tried to convince American consumers that it cared about women’s equality was in 1987, when the shoe giant aired...
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“Think about your daughter!”: Motherhood and the Shaming of Sex Work
So, of course, I was bothered by the ever-so-tired (as in played out) but still so very dangerous shaming of sex work that is motivated...
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Prose Poem: “To All the Boys Who Didn’t”
By Kristin Sanders Thank you to the man in Las Vegas who ripped my tampon out and went down on me anyway...
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Straight Outta Rape Culture
When N.W.A.’s mega-hyped biopic Straight Outta Compton opens this Friday, the brutalized bodies of black women will be lost in the predictable stampede of media accolades. ...
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Complexities and Messiness: Race, Gender, Disability and the Carceral State (Part I)
By Carolyn Tyjewski I’ve been an activist for decades, and always intentionally (and sometimes not) at the intersections of communities that are fighting similar battles. Whether...
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Deconstructing the Arrest of Sandra Bland
By Erick A. Paulino By now, most people in the United States know who Sandra Bland is and the circumstances that led to her arrest...
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Act Out features TFW’s Heidi R. Lewis
Heidi R. Lewis, Assistant Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies at Colorado College and Associate Editor for TFW, was recently interviewed by Eleanor Goldfield on...
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Free Marissa Now and Stand With Nan-Hui: A Conversation About Parallel Struggles
Alisa Bierria, a member of the Free Marissa Now Mobilization Campaign and a member of INCITE! and Hyejin Shim, an organizer with the Stand with...
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Memory and Violence: Old South Nostalgia in the Wake of the Emanuel AME Shooting
By Jamie Huff Since the recent killing of nine Black congregants at Charleston, South Carolina’s Emanuel AME church on June 17, debates about the...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Hillary Clinton for President? Why She’s Not the Woman We Need
By: Aviva DeKornfeld Hillary Clinton is a woman and as it turns out, this is big news. Back in 2012, both Clinton and Barak Obama...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Nine Times She Felt Less Than Human
By Anonymous ...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Exploring Meghan Trainor’s “Feminist” Message
By Emily Wershba A “new” wave of feminism (and anti-feminism) in pop culture has resulted in a newfound respect for feminist pop songs and...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Why Human Rights Don’t Work for Me
By Lydia Lopez Recently, I attended a panel called “Women’s Rights in the 21st Century: Fifteen Years After United Nations Security Council Resolution...
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Police Criminals and the Brutalization of Black Girls
In Alice Walker’s short story “The Flowers,” a little girl happens upon the decomposing body of a lynching victim while she is out picking flowers. ...
