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The Lemonade Reader: Black Feminists Read Beyoncé
THE MAKING OF A NEW ANTI-RACIST FEMINIST WORKING CLASS; #Feminism4the99
Black Feminism and Black Moses, Part II
On #survivingrkelly: deconstruction, accountability, and a #networkofpredation
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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TFW Review: The Sisters Are Alright: Changing The Broken Narrative of Black Women In America
In full disclosure, I’m one of the interviewees in Tamara Winfrey Harris’ debut, The Sisters Are Alright: Changing The Broken Narrative of Black Women In...
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New Interdisciplinary Resource, Black Lives Matter, Introduces 6-12th Graders to Antiblack Violence in U.S. Law and Society
By M. Shadee Malaklou When Ferguson police draped a white sheet over Michael Brown’s dead body, they forgot to cover his feet. For four hours,...
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Complexities and Messiness: Race, Gender, Disability and the Carceral State (Part II)
By Carolyn Tyjewski The BlackLivesMatter movement was founded on the premise that we should centralize the most marginalized within the Black liberation movements of old....
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“Mixed” Existence: On Rachel Dolezal and Alleles
By Daphne Taylor-García This article reflects on the colonial/racial divide, Rachel Dolezal’s proclamation, “I don’t give two shits what you guys think…I do consider myself...
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Straight Outta Rape Culture
When N.W.A.’s mega-hyped biopic Straight Outta Compton opens this Friday, the brutalized bodies of black women will be lost in the predictable stampede of media accolades. ...
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Flash Fiction: “A Dog Is A Dog Is A Dog”
By Arya F. Jenkins Mornings, early, she rose with her dog, Moreno, who was, to put it mildly, the spitting image of her father,...
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Complexities and Messiness: Race, Gender, Disability and the Carceral State (Part I)
By Carolyn Tyjewski I’ve been an activist for decades, and always intentionally (and sometimes not) at the intersections of communities that are fighting similar battles. Whether...
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Collective Dreaming: An Interview with Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Almah LaVon
By Tala Khanmalek If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury,...
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5 poems by Khadijah Queen
I don’t remember how old I was when I saw Lou Rawls but we were on Wilshire somewhere with my mom & he drove a...
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Deconstructing the Arrest of Sandra Bland
By Erick A. Paulino By now, most people in the United States know who Sandra Bland is and the circumstances that led to her arrest...
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Why Did Sandra Bland Die? (And Why We Need a White Anti-Racist Feminist Posse)
By Zillah Eisenstein By now Sandra Bland’s name has been in the news for several weeks. A 28-year old Black woman is stopped by a...
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2 poems by Lee Ann Roripaugh
……………….tsunami battles the pink robots / french poststructuralist tsunami it’s such a pitiful bukkake those post-tsunami Roombas cooling down plant walls stripping...
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#SayHerName: #SandraBland is Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman and Fannie Lou Hamer
We interrupt our summer break to #SayHerName and to honor #SandraBland. Sandra Bland should not be dead but she may have taken her own life....
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3 poems by Darrian Wesley
Words Before Dying As my mother’s mother warned of her love when I confessed, gay: many have died for this. But to bullet...
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A poem by Amy Lukau
i always wanted to work on a cotton plantation. you know, somewhere in the deep south. close to cajun town but deeper toward the mouth...
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Act Out features TFW’s Heidi R. Lewis
Heidi R. Lewis, Assistant Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies at Colorado College and Associate Editor for TFW, was recently interviewed by Eleanor Goldfield on...
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2 pieces by Cherie Jones
In Memoriam I mourn my vagina, and miss her. My husband mourns her too. As things progressed, we’d used a special Morse when he...
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3 poems by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
THE MOON IS TRANS The moon is trans. From this moment forward, the moon is trans. You don’t get to write about the moon anymore...
