Layli Maparyan is the Katherine Stone Kaufmann ’67 Executive Director of The Wellesley Centers for Women, one of the nation’s leading organizations committed to research and...
Black women have tended to incredible, secluded gardens within the expansive wasteland of this dysfunctional democracy.–Joy James, from “Resting in the Gardens, Battling in the...
By Brothers Writing to Live We are a collective of black men dedicated to challenging the ideas of black masculinity and manhood through the written...
By Mazuba Haanyama In tribute to the life and legacy of Assata Shakur, we commune here, sisters bound in struggle, reflecting on the myriad of...
By Luam Kidane Assata Shakur. she who struggles. Assata Shakur. she who struggles for rupture from colonized thought patterns. thought patterns choreographed to the legacies...
By Kai M. Green and Treva Ellison We (Treva and Kai) are Black, queer, trans, and anti-capitalist scholars, activists, and artists based in Los Angeles,...
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Assata Shakur has been given many names over the past four decades. Her political allies in the 1970s struggle for black liberation knew her as...
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Heather Laine Talley Perhaps in this twenty-four hour news cycle culture, the horrid sexist and racist sexualization of nine-year old...
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With the intertwined mission of fostering feminist, anti-racist, and anti-imperialist perspectives, 2012 gave our contributors no shortage of topics about which to write. We saw...
101 Things That Are Not True About The Most Famous Black Women Alive (ebook) by Alexis Pauline Gumbs Reviewed by Sarah Mantilla Griffin The form...
By Aimee Meredith Cox, Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Tamura A. Lomax With every piece I read, I felt like a layer of my skin was...
By Tara Bynum and Alexis Pauline Gumbs From at least 1772 to 1779 Phillis Wheatley, the “first” published African American poet wrote letters to another...
TFW Editorial Collective members Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Bushra Rehman, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan and Darnell L. Moore present Culture Wednesday: Feminisms In Poetic Voice. Check them...
TFW celebrates Editorial Collective Member, Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Julia Wallace, M.Div. on their nomination to The Advocate’s “40 under 40” list. Alexis...
The Remastered Tools 101 Webinar is a month-long course for visionary under-represented graduate students and emerging community accountable scholars inspired by the brilliance of Audre...
Principle inspired by Pandwe Gibson en cuba when asked about the challenge a godless country he said education is our religion home in the precinct...