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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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“Love that Girl” but Hate “those” Boys?
By Ulli K. Ryder “Love that Girl” is a new show on TVOne, starring Tatyana Ali who is best known for her role as Ashley...
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An Endorsement Against Church Bigotry and The Injustice of ¶ 304.3
What better time to stand in solidarity with those called to religious institutions, yet marginalized due to structural bigotry, than what is interpreted by many...
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Artist Spotlight: Larissa Mogano, Photographer
Photography by Larissa Mogano “Morning Mist on Eucalyptus” c. 2009, taken in San Diego, CA (location undisclosed), with Canon digital EOS Rebel XTi “Checkered Past”...
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Shayne Lee, Your Revolution Will Not Happen Between These Thighs: An Open Letter
Since writing my review of Erotic Revolutionaries: Black Women, Sexuality, and Popular Culture, entitled “Erotic or Thanatic?: Black Feminist Criticism on the Ropes,” originally written for Palimpsest: A...
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Erotic or Thanatic?: Black Feminist Criticism on the Ropes
Reprinted from Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, with SUNY Press. Update: Final copy now available in Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender...
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Faux Feminist Men and Other Figments (Real and Imagined)
Last spring, I offered a “Feminist Theory” course, and a startling thing happened. More men signed up for the class than women. When I saw...
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On a Blues Woman’s Birthday
Today is singer Bessie Smith’s 117th birthday. While the particular milestone is not the most significant, the woman it relates to is. “The Empress of...
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Reproductive Tourism
A recent article in the New York Times describes the discovery of birth houses in San Gabriel, California, where “relatively wealthy” Chinese women were stealthily...
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Featured Poet: Destiny O. Birdsong
Prenuptial Agreement Everyone’s angry at me—even your mother, And no one understands why it’s necessary If we’re going to stand before God and say forever—...
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Speaking Truth to Power: “You Are What You Eat”
By Ashante Reese The buzz surrounding the name of the recently-opened Fat Ho Burgers in Waco has spread beyond the small town in central Texas. ...
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Women in (Post) Revolutionary Egypt
By Ebony E.A. Coletu The post-revolutionary society contains a warning in its name. Is the laborious work of political reconstruction part of the revolution or...
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Clarity (On Clarence Thomas and the Worth of Black Life)
Yesterday, my dad sent me an article from Slate Magazine about a Supreme Court decision written by Clarence Thomas that effectively argued that a black man,...
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“Eating the Other” (at Fat Ho Burgers): Desire and Resistance (Remixed)
At the corner of 11th Street and Ross Avenue in Waco, Texas sits a new eatery: Fat Ho Burgers (or, as some like to call...
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Regrets: Professor Manning Marable
The editors of TFW note with great sadness the passing of Manning Marable, director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia...
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Prescription for Relief
Sex-Crimes-Exhibition-Press-Image-Jan-2011 By Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman A few weeks ago I attended an exhibit at the Skylight Gallery at Restoration Plaza in Brooklyn, called “Sex Crimes against...
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Going Postal: The Right’s Sleight of Hand
Most of us remember the widespread atmosphere of optimism that followed Barack Obama’s victory over John McCain. Many also remember statements from some groups on...
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Introducing: Adam Thomas…
TFW welcomes Adam Thomas to our Editorial Collective. Adam Thomas is a Ph.D. student in the History Department at University of California, Irvine, with a...
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Sixty-two hours in Cairo
By Adam John Waterman For Beth Cleary and Peter Rachleff The history of civilization which began in Egypt was not so much a matter of...