A Collective Student Response to the “Chicago Statement” Petition

We, The Damned Collective, are delighted to host the work of The Damned. Below you will read and certainly be inspired by this collective statement from Williams College Students. This is their...

Lessons from the Damned, 2018

By. Dr. G & Dr. Kimberly S. Love “The slaves who...

EMERGING FEMINISMS, The People’s Champ

By Adam Szetela Ronda Rousey shattered the UFC’s conservative stereotypes of...

Male Ego Bulls**t: On Martial Arts Training, Violence, and Toxic Masculinity

By Jesse Goldberg This past summer, I got to watch a friend...

EMERGING FEMINISMS, When You’re Not Physically Masculine: Colorado College’s Body Privilege

By Jade Pearl Frost When I first stepped foot onto Colorado College’s...

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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Being
By Guest Contributor on September 1, 2016
By Malia Nahinu A painful existence— Confusing messages, Spoken to us as children in anger From protective mothers, “DO NOT WALK ALONE AT NIGHT.” Dresses...
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How Nike’s Neoliberal Feminism Came to Rule the Global South
By Guest Contributor on September 14, 2015
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...
COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Forum Submissions on Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival DUE 6/1/15
By admin on June 1, 2015
PLEASE SEND IN YOUR SUBMISSIONS!! TODAY: JUNE 1, 2015 Thank you to everyone who has submitted to the College Feminisms Forum! Please continue to share...
TFW’s Heidi R. Lewis to Speak at Purdue
By admin on March 30, 2015
TFW Associate Editor Heidi R. Lewis will be speaking at her doctoral alma mater, Purdue University, on a panel entitled "Champions OUT Loud" during the...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Buff, Black, Tattooed, and Feminist: On the Utility of a Bro-Feminist
By Guest Contributor on January 26, 2015
By Marquis Bey A feminist friend of mine—a 4’10” queer white woman—jokingly mocks my “bro-ness,” that is to say, my proclivity to throw around weights...
Rotten to the Core: The NFL and Domestic Violence
By admin on September 8, 2014
By David J. Leonard and Monica J. Casper The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey found that fully a third of women in the...
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Op-Ed: The NFL’s Response to Violence Against Women: Why One Fan Won’t Watch This Year
By Guest Contributor on August 13, 2014
This is an issue of basic human dignity and respect. I, as a man, am perfectly capable of not beating up my wife and children....
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Feminists We Love: Jessica Luther ~ Activist, commentator, and change agent
By David J. Leonard on July 4, 2014
I am not sure when and where I first came in contact with Jessica W. Luther and her work, but ever since that moment I...
Dancing While Black
By Aimee M. Cox on May 30, 2014
My friend read the letters DWB on my computer screen, assumed they were the acronym for “driving while black” and wondered what racial profiling had...
We Need More Than Pink Cleats
By Guest Contributor on April 25, 2014
By Kiana Cox Every October the NFL, in partnership with the American Cancer Society, adorns itself in pink to raise awareness about and funds for...
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Treva B. Lindsey: The Future and the Now
By David J. Leonard on April 4, 2014
Dr. Treva B. Lindsey is very much the future – of black popular cultural studies, feminist scholarship, social media activism, and so much more. Someone...
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Mad (at) Men’s March Madness
By Guest Contributor on March 21, 2014
Dr. Cheryl Cooky writes about March Madness 2014 in order to problematize how media shapes our interests in sport and our cultural beliefs about gender....
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On Michael Sam Coming Out
By Guest Contributor on February 13, 2014
By Cheryl Cooky Nearly a year ago today, I was invited to deliver a lecture to the students at Wabash College (a small, all-male, liberal...