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Visualizing Masculinities: An Artistic Rendering by John Jennings
Masculinity, like other social constructs, is extremely limiting. It is difficult to find a flexible space to express personal identity. Although masculinity and its overtly...
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Introducing Erik C. Hollis: Editorial Intern
Erik Hollis is a Black queer feminist undergraduate student at the University of Arizona double-majoring in Gender & Women’s Studies (Sexualities and Queer Studies emphasis)...
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how time passes now, how space changes here: Black Feminist Calculus and A Review of R. Erica Doyle’s Proxy
Months ago, I was sitting in a Laotian restaurant talking about the possibility of Black Feminist Calculus with the brilliant mathematician and carpenter Maia Boudreaux...
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Two Poems
by Brook Blander Stupid (from now that I’m here; lyrics from the mud to the sun) …is what they call her. Without regard to...
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Introducing: Edward (Eddie) Ndopu
Born to a South African freedom fighter mother who fled from the Apartheid regime to Namibia under self-imposed exile, Edward (Eddie) Ndopu is a dis/abled...
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Introducing: Heidi R. Lewis
Heidi R. Lewis is Assistant Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies at Colorado College. Her teaching and research focus on feminism, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity (black...
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Introducing: TC Tolbert
TC Tolbert is a genderqueer, feminist poet and teacher committed to social justice. TC is Assistant Director of Casa Libre en la Solana, adjunct instructor at University of Arizona...
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Two Internship Opportunities at TFW
Editorial Intern TFW seeks a part-time editorial intern, preferably an advanced undergraduate or early graduate student. Duties will include triaging manuscript submissions, tracking reviews, communicating...
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Poem Feature: "Moviemakers"
by e nina jay moviemakers are so clever and so programmed we are one cannot watch one hour of television live one day...
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Rape, American Style
By Sikivu Hutchinson On Violent Silence: When I was five years old I was sexually assaulted by neighbors. Ours was a tranquil post-white flight neighborhood...
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Book Review: 101 Things That Are Not True About The Most Famous Black Women Alive
101 Things That Are Not True About The Most Famous Black Women Alive (ebook) by Alexis Pauline Gumbs Reviewed by Sarah Mantilla Griffin The form...
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Nice White Boys Next Door and Mass Murder
Standing in line at the California Science Center the day of the mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary school, my students wondered aloud about the...
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A Photo-essay: Decolonizing My Body, My Being
By: Edward Ndopu In the winter of 2011, almost three weeks before my twenty-first birthday, I had the extraordinary pleasure of joining forces with photographer...
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Concluding TFW's Forum on World AIDS Day 2012
Today marks the conclusion of our Forum on World AIDS Day, but we are committed to making space for critical conversations on HIV/AIDS throughout the...
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The Assembly
Queens, NY 1984 Nothing in P.S. 19 was ever heated enough. The auditorium, the cafeteria, the large windows with their pull-down plastic vinyl drapes rattled...
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Don’t tell me about your nanny (unless you’re willing to put your money where your mouth is)
A recent Time magazine article on the “Invisible World of Nannies, Housekeepers, and Caregivers” by Ai-jen Poo, Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, prompted me to...
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Introducing: Tressie McMillan Cottom
Tressie McMillan Cottom is a PhD candidate in the Sociology Department at Emory University. Broadly, Tressie is interested in organizations, education, labor, and stratification. Currently,...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Porn Industry Threatens to Sue over Condom Law
Voters want actors in adult films to wear condoms, but the industry is threatening to sue and shift production elsewhere. Nearly 56% of Los Angeles County voters...