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Three Poems
By Anisha Dutt You & Me Body, stamped, ornate and pure. My body, your body. Sealed. Beliefs erect dry rivers. Words spark fire, smoldering...
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Transfeminism: Speaking My Truth to Power
By Pauline Park Is there a ‘trans feminism’? And if so, what is it? Given that feminism itself is such a charged subject and transgender...
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TFW Culture Wednesday
TFW Editorial Collective members Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Bushra Rehman, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan and Darnell L. Moore present Culture Wednesday: Feminisms In Poetic Voice. Check them...
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Diaspora (for a friend)
You inspire me in too many directions. I am laughing onto pillows, gurgling spit into screen. Visions mangled between eyes, quicktongued foreign gazes,...
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Our American Future: A Disadvantaged Majority?
By Bryan M-C Epps This year’s presidential election is set to be the most important one for all those who plan to be part of...
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Introducing (Young Voices Edition): Kiyan Williams
Kiyan Williams is a Newark-bred scholar and activist. He is currently an undergraduate at Stanford University, where he majors in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity...
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Introducing (Young Voices Edition): Mason Casper-Milam
Mason Casper-Milam is ten years old. She enjoys reading, writing, art, and nature. She has a pet fish named Aqua, who she sometimes forgets to feed....
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Introducing (Young Voices Edition): Dylan McCann
Dylan McCann is a recent high school graduate and will attend Warren Wilson College in the fall of 2012 to pursue a degree in Creative Writing....
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Peta for Prez: A Black Feminist Socialist Presidential Candidate Speaks!
My dreams don’t usually take the form of the state. But in my dream state the Combahee River Collective statement would be the preamble to...
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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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Introducing: Linda Martín Alcoff
Linda Martín Alcoff teaches philosophy and women’s and gender studies at the City University of New York, both at Hunter College and the Graduate Center....
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Introducing: Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández
Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández is Associate Professor of American Studies and Associate Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin....
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Introducing: Rosa-Linda Fregoso
Rosa-Linda Fregoso is an interdisciplinary scholar and writer. She is the author of six books and edited collections, and has over 50 essays published in print...
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My Mother’s Body of Work
When I was eleven years old the Dance Theatre of Harlem came for the first time to Cincinnati, my hometown. Weeks leading up to the...
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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: 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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Mobile Homecoming Co-creators recognized in The Advocate “top 40 under 40”
TFW celebrates Editorial Collective Member, Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Julia Wallace, M.Div. on their nomination to The Advocate’s “40 under 40” list. Alexis...
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Silence Equals Death: Sexual Violence and Young Women of Color
By Sikivu Hutchinson April is sexual assault awareness month. It also marks the global observance of Denim Day for sexual assault survivors. Black and mixed...