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The (Un)Fair Fight for a Just Democracy
A Collective Student Response to the “Chicago Statement”
Lessons from the Damned, 2018; or Why We Cannot wait for Tenure to Insist upon our Dignity, Respect, Power, and Value
Book Release: Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture
#eulogizingaretha: For the Colored Girl Who Gave Us a Rainbow When the Black Church Wasn’t Enuff (Benediction)
#eulogizingaretha: A Reflection Upon a Musical Selection: “Mary, Don’t You Weep”
#eulogizingaretha: What We Need to Say About Mother Franklin
#eulogizingaretha: The Power of Aretha Louise Franklin
#eulogizingaretha: A Rose Is Still A Rose
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#eulogizingaretha: Her life. Her love for us. Our love for her.
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Indian Sex Workers More Than Vectors of Disease
By Gowri Vijayakumar Embedded within a recent New York Times piece about sex work in India is a problematic set of assumptions—a conflation of individualization...
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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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Poem Suite: Bodies
Have Your Own Timeless Edition Every Black Woman for Free By Naomi Extra Arrives unassembled See instructions enclosed: ...
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Fear of a Black Body
Hank Willis Thomas “Suspicious;” “he feared for his life;” “it looked like a weapon;” and “it was a dangerous situation.” Such explanations and sources of...
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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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The Perpetual Dumb Girl
By Erika L. Sánchez Sometimes, when I have to walk past a group of teenage girls, I fear I’ll hear a version of the affected...
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TFW Poet Spotlight: Darrel Alejandro Holnes
By Darrel Alejandro Holnes Post-Racial You have been a vegan for years and are tired of fearful fishes trembling when you fly above, tired of...
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Kasandra Michelle Perkins: We Must Say Her Name
In the aftermath of the tragic murder of Kasandra Michelle Perkins, and the subsequent suicide of Jovan Belcher, much of the media and social...
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For the Women of Ciudad Juárez
In late September of 2012, we gathered at the site where the remains of eight murdered women and girls were found in an open...
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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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HIV and Bumming Cigarettes: A Conversation With tiona.m.
I first met award-winning Black lesbian filmmaker tiona.m. (Tiona McClodden) in Atlanta in spring 2005 when she was working as a freelance videographer at Spelman...
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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...
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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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Introducing TFW's Forum on World AIDS Day
I was in my early teens when an aunt shared that an estranged and presumably “gay” cousin, one whose name was the same as mine,...
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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,...