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What We Aren’t Talking About When We Talk About Gun Control
In the wake of the Newtown shootings, the airwaves have been vibrating—often furiously—with conversations about guns. And as always in the United States, the issue...
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Ovary
I left my ovary on the subway last night. Stepped out. Felt light. Heard the doors close behind me, and realized I’d left my ovary...
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Dismantling the Anti-Life Alliance
By Maria Faini In Marietta, Ohio, on an October afternoon just prior to the recent Presidential election, Tea Party and Catholic protesters confronted Nuns on...
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E(race)sure, Queerness, and Civil Rights in the South: The Undocubus and the Legacy of Bayard Rustin
By Brittany D. Chávez As a queer woman of color artist-scholar-activist living in the U.S. South, I am deeply invested in historical legacies of queer...
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TFW: The Year in Review
With the intertwined mission of fostering feminist, anti-racist, and anti-imperialist perspectives, 2012 gave our contributors no shortage of topics about which to write. We saw...
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Django Unchained: A Critical Conversation Between Two Friends
By David J. Leonard and Tamura A. Lomax There have been so many great discussions on Django Unchained, so many thoughtful and engaging articles, and even...
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Gratefulness
The holiday season is not just about gifts and Santa Claus, it’s about being grateful for what you have and recognizing the people who are...
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Talking About Grief and Violence
From the editors: Here at TFW, we have many, many email and phone conversations that never make their way onto our site. We bounce ideas...
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Black Feminist Intellectual: A Conversation with Professor Imani Perry
DM: At present, you hold a primary appointment as a Professor within the Center for African American Studies and a secondary appointment in Law and Public...
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Navajo man wants the nation to hear its official apology
Buried on page 45 of the 2010 Defense Appropriations Act, after pages on the maintenance and operation of the U.S. military, is an official...
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Black Survival in the Uchromatic Dark
By Tavia Nyong’o With all the rock dinosaurs that thundered the Madison Square Garden dome during Wednesday’s 12-12-12 benefit concert, a viewer might have missed...
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Pageantry
By Petrina Crockford The first summer our dads were in Afghanistan, our moms on the base got together and organized a parade and pageant. Streamers...
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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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Proving Rape to Receive Public Assistance: Pennsylvania HB 2718
By Kalen Young Now that the adrenaline from November 6th has begun to wear off, I find my concentration turning to more localized legislation. My...
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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 Work, Frontline HIV Prevention Workers, & the Labor of Love Yet To Be Done
By: Lillian Rivera, MPH & Edgar Rivera Colón, PhD December 1st, World AIDS Day, represents a multitude of things to people involved in addressing and living...
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HIV/AIDS in the Prison Industrial Complex
By Sandy Guillaume As the United States prepared to mark another World AIDS Day (WAD), I wondered to myself: What catchy slogan will be used...
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TFW Interviews an Expert in the HIV Prevention Field: Dr. David Malebranche
TFW: The theme for World AIDS Day from 2011-2015, which is “Getting to Zero: Zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS related deaths,” is a...