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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)
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#eulogizingaretha: What We Need to Say About Mother Franklin
#eulogizingaretha: The Power of Aretha Louise Franklin
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Women with Walkers and Wheelchairs Close San Francisco Bank Of America Branch
Tita Caldwell, 80, led the charge of women with walkers and wheelchairs, against Bank of America in San Francisco, CA. last week, explaining that she...
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Why Jay-Z’s “Glory” Dedication to Blue Ivy Made this Black Man Cry
By Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. I was prepared to be scared for HOW hip-hop mogul Jay-Z and pop Diva Beyoncé would introduce their daughter, Blue Ivy,...
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“Oh Hello No”: Homophobia and those t-shirts ain’t no joke
By David J. Leonard The college football season came to an end last night. It marked the conclusion of a bowl season that has been...
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Brazil’s Insidious New Pregnancy Registration Law Violates the Privacy of Women
Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first female president, was gathering a group a conservative legislators to stealthily assist in drafting and enacting a Ceauşescu-like law requiring all...
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Adieu to ‘Mademoiselle’: French Town Bans ‘Sexist’ Term
Cesson-Sévigné, a suburb of Rennes, France, has banned the use of the title “mademoiselle” on all official forms starting January 1, 2012. Two feminist groups...
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Definition of Rape: 7 Ways To Rethink How We Approach Sexual Assault
By Soraya Chemaly Today the FBI updated it’s circa 1920 definition of rape. Until today, rape was still defined as “The carnal knowledge of a female...
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Introducing: Aimee Meredith Cox
TFW welcomes Aimee Meredith Cox to the Editorial Collective! Aimee Meredith Cox, PhD, is a cultural anthropologist and assistant professor of performance and African and African...
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Introducing: C. Riley Snorton
TFW welcomes C. Riley Snorton to the Editorial Collective! C. Riley Snorton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University....
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Black Queer Gender and Pariah’s “Grand Swagger”
Three white women crowd the ticket window. “What is Pariah?” one asks, flustered. The ticket vender stammers. “It’s, uh, kind of a slice-of-life among kids...
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Iowa Caucus: What's in it for Women?
By Soraya Chemaly, TFW special correspondant The U.S. ranks 40th in the world for women’s political empowerment and we’re losing ground. Fortieth. This ranking, based on 2010 data,...
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
TFW wishes you and yours the very best in 2012–more love, more wisdom, more justice, more patience, more happiness, and of course, more opportunities to...
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On Black/Brown Girlhood, Black Feminism, and the Arts: A Conversation with Aimee Meredith Cox and Ruth Nicole Brown: Part II
Introduction: TFW Editorial Collective member, Darnell L. Moore, recently facilitated an insightful and incite(ful) dialogue on Black/Brown girlhood with scholars/artists/activists Ruth Nicole Brown and Aimee Cox....
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On Black/Brown Girlhood, Black Feminism, and the Arts: A Conversation with Aimee Cox and Ruth Nicole Brown: Part I
Introduction: TFW Editorial Collective member, Darnell L. Moore, recently facilitated an insightful and incite(ful) dialogue on Black/Brown girlhood with scholars/artists/activists Ruth Nicole Brown and Aimee...
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Rep. Jim Sensenbrenners' Posterior Fixation
Last week Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner was overheard saying that First Lady Michelle Obama should attend to her “large posterior” before lecturing Americans on eating right. ...
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France to pay for breast implant removal over cancer fear
The French government will pay for tens of thousands of women to have silicone breast implants removed over concerns about a possible link to a...
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For David Kato: A Love Poem: a Ugandan Gay Rights Activist, 1964-2011
By Joseph Ross Because my kisses are tender against your throat. Because my lips are not the steel hammer that snaps your neck...
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Transnational Parental – Child Abduction: ’Tis the Season to be Wary
By Anique John-Carter and Alanna Kennedy Transnational abduction frequently conjures up images of children being trafficked from one part of the world to another for economic...
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Remedy for a Homophobic/Biphobic/Queerphobic/ Transphobic Naija
By Adaku Chinenye Utah On Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 my country, Nigeria, passed an anti-gay bill through the Senate that would criminalize same-sex marriages and civil...