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A Commitment to/with/for The Damned
The Time Has Come for White Women to Move Beyond Lip Service: Toward an Anti-Racist Professional Ethics for White Women’s Studies Directors
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
#eulogizingaretha: The Queen Saved My Soul
#eulogizingaretha: A Natural Black Woman: Aretha Franklin’s #BlackGirlMagic
#eulogizingaretha: Her life. Her love for us. Our love for her.
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Featured Poet: Kamilah Aisha Moon
A SUPERWOMAN CHOOSES ANOTHER WAY TO FLY woke up again parched from a dream / full of old water, the only urgent tide / in...
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Introducing: Sikivu Hutchinson…
TFW welcomes Sikivu Hutchinson to our Editorial Collective. Sikivu Hutchinson is a senior intergroup specialist for the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission. She received a Ph.D. in...
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Introducing: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan…
TFW welcomes Mecca Jamilah Sullivan to our Editorial Collective. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is from Harlem, New York. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming internationally in publications including Callaloo,...
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Tamar and Troy, or, When Can We Cry?
By Ashon Crawley But when brought them near to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, “Come, lie with me,...
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Gloria Steinem and "NO! The Rape Documentary"
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons Gloria Steinem is a Second Wave White Feminist pioneer who, for over 40 years and counting, has been at the forefront...
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A Message from the Editors Concerning the Execution of Troy Anthony Davis
We join millions of Americans in expressing our profound sorrow tonight that despite recantations and substantial doubt concerning his guilt, the state of Georgia has...
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Dunham in the Air: A Reflection on Radical Choreographies and Programming Social Justice
By Aimee Meredith Cox, Ph.D. Retrograde I was on my way to Santa Fe last summer marveling at the technology that allowed me to be...
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The Women in Tahrir Square
Editor’s Note: In light of the most recent examples of resistance and protest in Egypt, we offer this reminder and analysis of events earlier in the year. Let us keep...
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The Myth of “Gay Marriage,” The Reality of Gay Hate: Dispatches from New York and North Carolina
The recent ruling in favor of gays and lesbians in New York has had unintended consequences. And I don’t mean that the global wellbeing of...
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Featured Poet: Anne Marie Rooney
Elegy in which the film degrades —————————1 She has seen the angle a man shudders into. / The slab of haunch a promise. This woman /...
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Fables for Our Time
I should have been grading papers yesterday. In fact, I missed my own assignments, watching coverage that I know nearly as well as the digits...
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Message from The Editors: In Commemoration of 9/11
We wish to express our sincere sympathies for all of the victims of September 11, 2001, now ten years ago. The tragedy of that day...
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Making the Left TRANSPARENT; An Anti-Racist Feminist Friendly Critique, Again
By Zillah Eisenstein These are strange times. Rupert Murdoch and his media empire are finally exposed for hacking and deception and there is some accounting...
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A Review: Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project by Charles “Chas” Brack
By Darnell Moore “Sakia Latona Gunn: We Will Remember Her Name” (2008). Charles B. Brack (Producer) and Co-Produced with Third World Newsreel. Color; 58 minutes;...
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Music Feature: Diallo Hall on Sudanese "Girls' Music" and Artist Alsarah
In one of my favorite songs by Afro Beat progenitor Fela Kuti, he exclaims: If you call woman African woman no go ‘gree She go...
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Palin, Bachmann and the Political Feminism of the Right
As the 2012 Presidential election draws nearer, political observers and frontrunners alike are sure to begin reconstructing new and old partisan paradigms, with hopes of...
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Fitting In, In Beijing
My decision to go to Beijing, China for a summer literature institute provoked a variety of responses in those with whom I shared my plans. ...
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Message from The Editors: Submissions
As one of its features of coverage from time to time, TFW is pleased to invite submissions on women subjects–both contemporary and historic–who have made...
