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A Commitment to/with/for The Damned
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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
#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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There Is Nothing Funny About Rape, But…
“There is nothing funny about rape, but…” appears in my inbox and introduces me to a video of a justifiably irate man defending his sister’s...
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The Zen of Young Money: Being Present to the Genius of Black Youth
I fly with the stars in the skies, I am no longer trying to survive, I believe that life is a prize, But to live...
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MLK was no Feminist but…
TFW celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. today—not because he was a self-proclaimed feminist, but because his politics were. King’s radical notion of the “beloved community,”...
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Mothering Ourselves Manifests
Lavender water, feather boas, dance breaks and booty shakes. Split pea soup and togetherness tasted. Queerness affirmed, fear and shame released, plants watered, seeds planted,...
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The Onus of Black Respectability
By Terrion L. Williamson Recently, I was reading a book about the lives of black women in America in which the authors recount the story...
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An Opening Notation on the Limits of Paternalism
By Nahum D. Chandler It has been said that we must be prepared in the progress of all reformatory movements for periods of exhilaration and depression,...
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Truth or Consequences
A self-described “Blue-Dog” Democrat, Arizona’s “Gabby” Giffords likely did not know her assailant, nor, ironically, that in 2007, she had written him, as one of...
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Access Denied: The Ins/Outs of “What’s Down There”
Gay people have been fighting for the right to keep what happens in their bedroom private, but when it comes to our privates everyone wants...
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Tucson Tragedy: Naming the Unspeakable
My daughters-Mason, 9 and Delaney, 6-are in Tucson this weekend with my parents, who live there. My mother took the girls to the Tucson Symphony...
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TFW's Statement on the Attack of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, her Staff, and Constituents
TFW is deeply saddened by the vicious attack against Congresswoman Giffords, her staff, and constituents in Arizona today. Our sympathies are with all who have been...
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ADVENTURES IN RACE: NOTES ON MARK TWAIN’S HUCKLEBERRY FINN
The recent furor surrounding a new edition of Mark Twain’s nineteen-century classic, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, has far-reaching implications beyond the crude oppositions of censorship...
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Mothers, Children, and Holy Violence: Who’s at Fault?
On December 28, 2010 the state of Indiana filed suit against Latisha Lawson. Lawson, a 31 year-old African American mother of two residing in Fort...
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Reproductive Rights in Black and White
Last month, a friend and I attended a fundraising event for Planned Parenthood Arizona (PPAZ). Given the distressing results of the 2010 mid-term elections, the...
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Tribute to Bernie Sanders
On Friday, 10 December, one of the most remarkable instances of civic responsibility was televised on C-Span. Bernie Sanders, Junior Senator from the state of...
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Hell No to the New Jim Crow!
By Ronald B. Neal For more than two decades rappers have been the unofficial spokespersons for America’s failed War on Drugs. From N.W.A. to The...
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Envisioning the Village We Deserve: Queer Kwanzaa
What if this was the village? Not the fantasy patriarchal village that black cultural nationalists use to construct false nostalgia. Not the village that Hilary...
