Word libation in honor of Toni Cade Bambara’s genius: The task of the artist is determined always by the status and process and agenda of...
Toni Cade Bambara is a life saver. Expert on Black women’s creative and spiritual practice, Akasha Gloria Hull says that Bambara’s enduring work The Salteaters induces...
In the name of the known and unknown ancestors upon whose shoulders we stand… Today is the end of TFW’s global forum on Black Lesbian...
Aishah Shahidah Simmons — my sister and comrade across miles and years, and the visionary behind the historic forum you’ve been reading for the...
By Jerry Wever The Audre Lorde Archival Research Seminar at Spelman College in Atlanta is such a special seminar. This year marks the third offering...
By Banah Gha As a student at Spelman College, I want to share our story of activist organizing against misogyny, misogynoir, as Moya Bailey puts...
By Lyndon K. Gill In early June of 2013, the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) convened its thirty-eighth annual conference in Grand Anse, Grenada. Just a...
By Lynn Roberts Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. ~ Audre Lorde, A Burst of...
I write libation to all those known and unknown ancestors across lifetimes that have gone before me and upon whose shoulders I literally stand. Tuesday,...
By Ness white “The Black mother who is the poet in every one of us…that back place where we keep those unnamed, untamed longings for...
Dearest Mumia, I have been writing this letter for many years, in my head and in my heart, but have not until now committed the...
By Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Clyde Gumbs and Jared Gumbs This summer I attended a screening of Prison Radio’s film about Mumia Abu-Jamal, Long Distance Revolutionary. Mumia...
On December 9, 1981, journalist and activist Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested and later charged and convicted for murdering Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. The prosecution’s...
March is Women’s History Month! And The Feminist Wire is available for speaking engagements. If you follow our work, you know that we serve a...
TFW Editorial Collective members Aishah Simmons, Tamura A. Lomax, Heidi R. Lewis, Heather Laine Talley, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs attended the 34th annual National Women’s Studies...
It’s hard to say exactly what distinguishes good teaching from great teaching, but the evidence of transformative teaching is undeniable. Transformative teachers cultivate student followings....
Join Steven G. Fullwood (Schomburg Center) and TFW Collective Members, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan and Darnell L. Moore, on October 4, 2013. They...
Doris Davenport’s crucial journey as an artist and thinker has spanned many years and has touched the nation (you may for example remember her piece...