Youth
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F-Bombs to Live By: Feminism, Faith and Functional practices
By Stephany Rose I don’t hate white men. Though having to directly assert such a position is evidence for why my work of Abolishing White...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Woman Made From Iron
By Mohadesa Najumi Dedicated to my mother. They try to shrink you. Tame you. Convince you that all your rage is a product of your...
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On Boko Haram, Missing Children, and Narcissism
By Niama Safia Sandy This month I’ve watched as everyone talked about the mounting tension between the Ukraine and Russia, the Heartbleed superbug, the South...
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Nigerian Girls Deserve Better Than This
By Minna Salami On April 14, over two hundred girls aged twelve to seventeen were kidnapped from their school hostel in Borno, a Nigerian state that...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: ‘Night, Beautiful
By Emma Weisberg You’re beautiful. Why are those the hardest words to believe? The thing is I believe in what other people say pretty easily. ...
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Rethinking Dear White People: One Viewer Questions its Depiction of Microagressions for Today’s Youth
By Monique John While only recently picked up by Lionsgate Films, Dear White People has had the Internet buzzing for over a year. The indie...
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A Tale of Two Mothers
By Hanifa Barnes Scottsdale, AZ It is a beautiful afternoon in Scottsdale, AZ. The temperature will reach a high of 80 degrees, as a single...
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The Future: Resistance Beyond Apathy
The lamenting of “today’s youth” and their so-called apathy, ignorance and self-indulgence is nothing new. Each successive generation is often dismissed by “adults” who publicly...
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TFW’s Sikivu Hutchinson and Aishah Shahidah Simmons Partner to Address Sexual Violence with Youth in South Los Angeles
On Friday, March 7, 2014, TFW Associate Editor Aishah Shahidah Simmons gave a presentation on the importance of naming and ending sexual violence with approximately 50...
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Why Sikivu Hutchinson’s Latest Book Is Relevant To an Angry Romani Ex-Muslim
By Maryam Moosan-Clark In Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels, Sikivu Hutchinson takes us on a roller coaster ride through the different, interacting forms of...
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Nicki Minaj and Pretty Taking All Fades: Performing the Erotics of Feminist Solidarity
By Jillian Hernandez and Anya M. Wallace This essay aims to consider an erotics of feminist solidarity, not a solidarity that only decries the...
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For Lucia Mcbath, Sybrina Fulton and All Other Black Mothers Who’ve Considered Righteous Rage When Black Respectability Politics Ain’t Enough
In “What is this “black” in black popular culture? (Rethinking Race),” the late, great cultural theorist Stuart Hall, poignantly asks, “What sort of moment is...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Help Wanted: Sexual Harassment and the Restaurant Industry
By Jennifer McGreevey On my second day of waitressing at Athen’s Kitchen*, it rained. “It sucks cock,” said my boss, Baldios*, barely understandable due...
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An Open Letter to My Transgender Brothers on World AIDS Day 2013
By Kai M. Green Dear Kinfolk: Today is World Aids Day. Today, I remember those who we have lost. I remember the ancestors we have...
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Degeneracy Now! Suspended Between the Violence of Time and the Timelessness of Violence
Several uneventful Friday evenings ago, I stayed in with my best friend to watch In Time, starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried. The film, written,...
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If Wishes Were Fishes: A Love Letter to Our Daughters
Today is International Day of the Girl Child. A celebration of girls the world over, this day also marks the absence of educational and other...
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Day of the Girl: Celebrating the Beauty that is J’dah Thibeaux
Twenty-two years ago I met a friend for life; one of the most sincere, supportive, and loving people you’ll ever meet. Seven years later, my...
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What Ralph Ellison Can Teach Us about Trayvon Martin
By Dennis Tyler Jr. In light of the recent decision by the school board of education in Randolph County, North Carolina, to ban Ralph Ellison’s...
