Sexuality
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Feminists We Love: Mia Mingus
One insidious effect of systematic oppressions–including ableism, sexism, white supremacy, queerphobia, classism, and colonialism–is that we become disconnected from one another and from ourselves. For...
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Op-Ed: Black Men, are we doing enough to stand with Black women? Feminism is for Black Men too.
By Aaron Talley Compared to the bulk of my intellectual trajectory, I have spent very little time engaging directly with Black feminism. Through much of...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Sexual Violence: Why It Can Destroy Us All
By Kenneth Pass I’ve been secretly dealing with a past sexual violation of my body for 10 years. I am a black man, and the...
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Mourning Those Lost, Fighting for Our Lives: 2013 Transgender Day of Remembrance
By Princess Harmony Imagine this: you’re born to the outside world being as healthy as you could possibly be. Imagine that while the world is...
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Imagining Patsey’s Rescue by Harriet Tubman (Or, Marie Laveau’s Vengeance)
By Janell Hobson Having seen 12 Years a Slave twice (first at a fundraising event and later at a private screening and discussion), I am...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: No Fat, No Femme: The Politics of Grindr
By Nick Artrip I turn on my phone and allow my fingers to scroll across the numerous apps. I select “Grindr” and smile with anticipation. So...
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Laboring Positions: Black Women, Mothering and the Academy (A conversation with editor Sekile Nzinga-Johnson)
Sekile Nzinga-Johnson is a BADDDDD sista in the Sonia Sanchez sense. She is a mother, educator, scholar, ruler of the roller derby scene as Malice...
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Sound Off: Black Women Writers Respond to Rihanna’s “Pour it Up”
Given all of the responses, mostly negative, to Rihanna’s “Pour it Up” video, TFW decided to invite a few of our favorite black women writers to...
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Disposable Children: Whiteness, Heterosexism and the Murder of Lawrence King
It isn’t until the end of director Marta Cunningham’s new HBO documentary film Valentine Road, the gut-wrenching chronicle of the 2008 classroom murder of 15...
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Sites of Violence: Why Our Notions of “Sex Positive” Feminism Are in Need of an Overhaul
While skimming through news a few weeks ago, I noticed that one of the current hot topics on feminist threads was the Cliteracy project, an...
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An Open Letter to Same Gender Loving Black Men
By David J. Malebranche My heart is heavy. My soul longs for relief. Yesterday my dear friend, mentee and little brother, Warner McGee, transitioned after being...
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#Intersectionality for Racists: On Miss America
By Sayantani DasGupta Dear Racist Tweeters of America, First and foremost, let me thank you on behalf of feminists of color everywhere, not to mention...
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Fiction Flash: Lyssa in Limbo
By Michelle Auerbach (Excerpt from The Third Kind of Horse) I stared hard at Melody, at the blonde tips of her hair and I knew,...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Blonde Success: Fact or Myth?
By Ravon Ruffin and James “JP” Miller Do gentlemen really prefer blondes or has a history of fetishization of “the blonde” by media made it more...
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How To Forgive Abortion When You Are the Aborter
Andria Nacina Cole I imagine there are many feminists who would like to mourn an abortion but are afraid to do so, because to admit...
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A Dialogue of Love: A Conversation on Freedom and Affect
By Marcie Bianco and J.T. Roane TFW Collective Member, Darnell L. Moore, delivered a talk titled, “What Freedom Feels Like: On love, empathy and pleasure in the...
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Fallen Angels & Failures to Love: Gendered Violence in Songs About Bad Girls
By Annita Lucchesi Every year a few songs like this come out (semi-recent examples include Lil Wayne’s “How to Love,” J.Cole’s “Daddy’s Little Girl,” and...
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Miley’s Big Foam Finger Is Pointing At You: Stereotypes Plus Objectification Equals $$$
By Hope Wabuke I swore I wasn’t going to write about Miley Cyrus. Enough people have already done it. Enough good ink has been spilled...
