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Introducing: Heather M. Turcotte
Heather M. Turcotte is committed to anti-oppressive transnational feminist approaches to decolonizing academia, the interstate system and daily exchange. She received her PhD from the University...
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Introducing: Stephanie Gilmore
Stephanie Gilmore is an award-winning educator, writer, editor, and activist. She holds a Ph.D. in comparative women’s history from The Ohio State University, where she divided...
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Introducing: Duchess Harris
Duchess Harris is the author of two books, Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton/Obama (Palgrave Macmillan) and an edited volume with Bruce Baum, Racially Writing the Republic: Racists,...
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Introducing: Kai M. Green
Kai M. Green is a writer, scholar, poet, filmmaker, abolitionist, feminist and whatever else it takes to make a way towards a new and more just...
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Introducing: Joseph Osmundson
Joseph Osmundson is a scientist, writer, and educator born and raised in the rural Pacific Northwest. His research focuses on protein structure and function while his...
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Introducing: Stephanie Troutman
Stephanie Troutman is the daughter of interracial, working class parents. Raised primarily by a single, low-income mother, Stephanie is a Black feminist scholar and first-generation college...
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TFW: The Year in Review
Today is the final day of 2013. And this year has been one that pushed many people around the world to deeply consider and interrogate...
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3 poems by Niki Herd
Conjure Season Last night another woman died at the hands of a lover boy friend husband ex take your pick & all the mouths...
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We Exist In Darkness (Living at the Intersections)
By: Naomi Ortiz Intersectionality is described by dominant culture as the location where all of our multiple identities intersect. However, my identities are not straight...
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On Disability and Cartographies of Difference
By Wilfredo Gomez I recently returned to my alma mater to encounter a rather peculiar and interesting narrative about my legacy. While interacting with former...
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In Cold Blood: The Murder of Renisha McBride
A white family grieves in outrage after their teenage daughter has been gunned down by a black homeowner in an African American neighborhood. In this parallel universe the...
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Women Writers of the Diaspora with TFW Collective Member Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
.. . Join us as TFW editorial collective member Mecca Jamilah Sullivan reads at the New School for Public Engagement, as part of the Women Writers...
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Feminists We Love: Alison Piepmeier
It’s hard to say exactly what distinguishes good teaching from great teaching, but the evidence of transformative teaching is undeniable. Transformative teachers cultivate student followings....
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3 poems by Lilith Latini
Fact of a Flat Tire’s rim against rubber against pavement. Car hunched over its warped wheel, and nothing to do but lift the thing...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: In Every Community: LGBT Domestic Violence
By Zahara T. Hill Every 9 seconds; a phrase learned from watching several Lifetime Television movies when I was younger. Following a Lifetime movie centered...
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Poem Suite: Things
In our Poem Suites, we bring together the voices of emerging and established poets exploring a common theme. In today’s Poem Suite, four poets consider...
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Fiction Feature: CORONA by Bushra Rehman
Corona (and I’m not talking about the beer) Corona, Queens 1983 Corona, and I’m not talking about the beer. I’m talking about a little village...
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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...
