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The (Un)Fair Fight for a Just Democracy
A Collective Student Response to the “Chicago Statement”
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#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
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Editorial Changes for 2016
Dear TFW Friends, We’re excited to announce some important changes to our editorial practices, effective immediately. We will no longer be accepting open submissions to...
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Short Story: “Spin”
By Laura Witz There was a time when I took pleasure in the great money machine. In its fantasy of freedom. In its tales...
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An Open Letter to Planned Parenthood Leadership
By Zillah Eisenstein Dear Cecile Richards, You are amazing, along with the huge Planned Parenthood apparatus that delivers health care and reproductive freedom to millions...
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“All Lives Matter Act” Is a Blatant Attack on Black Female Bodies in Missouri
By Christine Assefa The deaths of Michael Brown, Jr., Vonderitt Myers, Jr., Kim King, and Kajieme Powell, and the Ferguson Uprising, thrust Missouri into the...
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Poem: “This Astrological Weather”
By Katie Jean Shinkle Can we remember how it felt in the winter of lights and hands together in prayer and finding our...
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Top 15 Things TFW Accomplished in 2015
Happy New Year! We are raising a glass to you — and to us. Because of your dedicated support, TFW continues to be a critical...
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Front Line Defenders Dublin Platform Testimony
By Charlene Carruthers I gave this speech in Dublin, Ireland before the release of video showing the execution of Laquan McDonald by Chicago Police Officer...
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#Feministcare: TFW on winter break for the month of December
Dearest Readers, Thank you for your continued support. And thank you for loving us and valuing our work. It’s been quite the year. As you...
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4 poems by Maged Zaher
* Making money takes time So is making sentences I pass by my thoughts of you They are satisfying Then eliminate the list of places...
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Nourishing for Disturbing and Disrupting: An Interview with Desiree Adaway
In world changing circles, self care might be the word of the year. Activists and artists, writers and teachers, organizers and trauma workers are transforming...
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A poem by John Pluecker
A Tree or Another or a Lover After Martin Buber and his English translator Ronald Gregor Smith I can look on a tree...
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Editorial
U.S. election politicking is distasteful even during the best of times. In our white supremacist, misogynist, xenophobic, capitalist nation—more oligarchy than democracy, further entrenched by Citizens...
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The Missing “P” in U.S. Anti-Trafficking Law
By Jennifer Suchland The three Ps of legislation and advocacy in anti-trafficking discourse are Prevention, Prosecution, and Protection. The “three Ps” emerged at the end...
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Charlie Sheen and Celebrity (HIV) Status
By Keiko Lane, MFT I didn’t want my work week to go like this, but by Monday afternoon it was clear that much of it...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Why Were We Laughing at Drake’s Dancing in “Hotline Bling?”: On Body Movement and Black Masculinity
By Lauren M. Todd In the past month, there has been a huge buzz of unabashed laughter at the Grammy-Award winner, Billboard Chart record breaker,...
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Poetry by Rebecca Lauren and Melissa Buckheit
Suffering by Melissa Buckheit This isn’t the answer. The answer is my hand on the table, saying what we thought privacy was, on your...
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White Nights, Black Paradise new novel on Jonestown by TFW’s Sikivu Hutchinson
On November 18, 1978, over 900 members of the Peoples Temple, a Black multiracial church, died in a Guyana jungle settlement named after the church’s...
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Collective Statement on Precarity and the Demand for Feminist Accountability in NWSA, 2015
STATEMENT TO THE LEADERSHIP OF THE NATIONAL WOMEN’S STUDIES ASSOCIATION ~~~ In the aftermath of the 2015 National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Annual Conference focused...
