Television
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A Response to "Voting as a Radical Act": A Word on the Shade of Shade…
By: Jakeya Caruthers Though an old trope, what makes a sketch like “I Know Black People” so electrically hilarious is its sharp challenge to the...
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The Precarity of Latino/a Child-Citizen Subjects: From Dora the Explorer to Child Deportees
What is a child-citizen subject? Put simply, it encompasses children’s right to exist, grow, and live in a country while being seen as a secondary...
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On “America’s New Sweetheart”: Gabby Douglas, Black Performance, and Belonging
By John Murillo III Meditations on African performance and subjectivity are always already spoken by this grammar and haunted by these ghosts. For whatever...
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The Nerve of Lena Dunham
Lena Dunham’s new HBO show “Girls” has touched a nerve. Or maybe a few. Surely this is in part because it is a nervy show....
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Masculinity, the NFL, and Concussions
The defenders of the National Football League (NFL) have been busy. In the wake of the suicide of Junior Seau, on the heels of several...
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When Injured Brains Speak
By Daniel R. Morrison and Monica J. Casper Last year in TFW, we wrote about the gendered aspects of traumatic brain injury (TBI), noting stark differences between...
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TFW Forum on Women Filmmakers (Day 3)
TFW is excited to highlight the inventive work of several phenomenal women filmmakers in a three-day forum that ends today. Carmen Torres, tiona m., Aishah Shahidah Simmons,...
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TFW Forum on Women Filmmakers (Day 2)
TFW is excited to highlight the inventive work of several phenomenal women filmmakers in a forum that runs from Wednesday through Friday. Carmen Torres, tiona m., Aishah...
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Women Filmmakers Forum: Nev Nnaji
Nev Nnaji is the producer/director of Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights, an upcoming feature-length documentary which focuses on the marginalization of black women...
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Women Filmmakers Forum: Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Aishah Shahidah Simmons is an AfroLez®femcentic Cultural Worker whose award-winning work has been screened extensively across North America, and in numerous countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, South America,...
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Women Filmmakers Forum: tiona.m.
tiona.m. is a multi-media artist whose mission is to make the invisible, visible and to humanize her subjects. She believes that her work as a...
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TFW Forum on Women Filmmakers
TFW is excited to highlight the inventive work of several phenomenal women filmmakers in a forum that runs from today through Friday. Carmen Torres, tiona m.,...
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Women Filmmakers Forum: Anna Barsan
Anna Barsan is a filmmaker and media educator currently living in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a Master’s in Film and New Media from the New...
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Women Filmmakers Forum: Carmen Torres
Carmen Torres graduated from the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and also holds a B.A. in Literature and Philosophy from Universidad de los...
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Race, Mad Men, and Nostalgia
By Claire Oberon Garcia Like three million other Americans, I eagerly looked forward to the return of Mad Men. I love the show. But as...