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A Collective Student Response to the “Chicago Statement”
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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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Spanx and The Marketing of "Normal" in a Fatphobic Culture
By now you’ve likely heard of Sara Blakely’s 21st century girdle alternative, Spanx. Perhaps you’ve even tried them out, or like me, don them religiously—with...
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Foreign Policies
According to operatic lore, the inauguration of the Suez Canal and the opening of the Cairo Opera were supposed to have occurred conjointly with the...
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Mississippi "Odd" (Damn): Black Feminism is Unbelievable
“It just sounds really odd. You know?” This is what a white male police officer said to me several times after he separated my partner...
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Be My (Feminist) Valentine
In her book All About Love, bell hooks makes a startling claim. Her parents did not love her. They gave her enough food to eat, books...
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Introducing: Heather Laine Talley…
TFW welcomes Heather Laine Talley to our Editorial Collective. Heather Laine Talley is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Western Carolina University. Her teaching and...
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Less Is Not More
When I was growing up in the 1970s, my parents worked for a magazine distribution company in Chicago. My dad was a diesel mechanic and...
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Cupid Ain’t @#$%! (and neither is the symbolic violence of his arrow)
Chocolate hearts will melt, flowers will die, and millions of Americans will be left to foot the bill of yet another over-commercialized holiday. Valentine's Day...
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Kanye West Is Not a Feminist But I Am!
The following essay is a response to “Kanye West Is Not A Feminist But…” For more information, please see the initial essay as well...
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A Time for Action
Abu al Qasim al-Shabbi (1909-943) “Life’s Will” Then it was earth I questioned: “Mother, do you detest mankind? And earth responded: I bless people with...
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Women, Welfare Reform and the Progressive Agenda
By Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman After more than a year or so of procrastinating I finally watched Lee Daniels’s critically and commercially successful film “Precious: Based on...
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Does Traumatic Brain Injury Have a Gender?
By Daniel R. Morrison and Monica J. Casper In the words of American poet Adrienne Rich, “All wars are useless to the dead.” Yet, while...
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Re-Writing Political Scripts–Democracy and Transformation in Egypt
It is certainly true that politics is theater: Familiar scripts are activated and rehearsed given the assumed audience. And the political actors, despite any espoused...
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An Open Letter to Judge Cosgrove
The following letter was written in response to the prosecution, conviction and sentencing of Ms. Kelly Williams-Bolar on two counts of felony (tampering with records)...
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Making Sense of Violence in the Aftermath of Tucson
By Yolande M. S. Tomlinson The consensus in the mainstream media, both on the left and right, is that Jared Lee Loughner’s decision to shoot...
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A Response to Ron Neal's Essay, "Kanye West Is Not a Feminist But…"
TFW supports our writers’ prerogative to take unpopular positions on important matters, but from time to time, the editors will not agree with an...
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Scales and Measures
I’ve awakened early the last few days because school started in earnest this week. Funny thing how the oldest habits linger (this particular one has...
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Kanye West Is Not a Feminist But…..
By Ronald B. Neal I’ve been thinking about Kanye West and gender politics for quite some time. It began back in ’05 when his pop ular...
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A Method to His Madness? Gender-Based Violence in the Tucson Shootings
By Janell Hobson By now, we have heard various theories about why 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner may have shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the head and...