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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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“Infiltrate What Exists, Innovate What Doesn’t”: Mentoring in the Academy, Leading By Example Part 2
In the second installment, I discuss scholarship and service, two components of a professional development portfolio that academic women often fall short because they are...
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Personal is Political: How Assata Shakur Changed My Life: The Importance Of Ethnic Studies Curricula In High School And Beyond
Yet it wasn’t just Shakur’s story that impacted me, it was the way she wrote it. She seamlessly weaves the story of her childhood in...
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“Infiltrate What Exists, Innovate What Doesn’t”: Mentoring in the Academy, Leading By Example Part 1
In her 2010 presidential address to the American Studies Association, Ruthie Wilson Gilmore invited us to “infiltrate what exists, innovate what doesn’t.” I achieved this...
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Op Ed: Why On Earth Do We Let Colleges and Universities “Handle” Their Own Rape Cases?
By Kari O’Driscoll On Tuesday, April 29, the White House issued a set of guidelines designed to address the hot-button issue of rape on college...
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TFW’s Heidi R. Lewis Discusses Beyonce’s Feminism on NPR
Beyoncé was recently on the cover of Time as one of the 100 most influential people. In response, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg writes, “She raises...
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The Politics of Turning Rape Into “Nonconsensual Sex”
By Breanne Fahs A few weeks ago, Al Jazeera ran a piece that critically traced the obfuscation of rape language from the (violent, highly politicized,...
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Feminists We Love: Carol Anshaw
Born and raised in Chicago, I find myself perpetually drawn to writers who live and work there—and who make the city a character in their...
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Who’s Still a Slave? Contemporary Black Women’s Rhetoric, Art, and Global Realities
By Janell Hobson “Are you still a slave?” That was the title of a forum on May 6, 2014 at the New School, featuring black...
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Personal is Political: What’s in a Name?
"After months of contemplation, it struck me. Why not change this respected German name into its English equivalent? If Ellis Island did this to immigrants...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Women with Bad Aim
By Colleen Ladd A group of girls stand in line at the back of a large house with white French doors, the only thing that...
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A Tongue In My Mouth: Some Ecstasies of Daily Life
By Dia Felix Into our night, I curl like a snail. To the bottom of the silver bridge, a tiny snail sticks. In this heat...
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SNL’s Leslie Jones Offers Anachronistic Jokes on Slavery
By Sheila Bustillos-Reynolds Critics are chiming in about several distasteful slavery jokes made on Saturday Night Live’s May 3rd show. Leslie Jones, a writer at...
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Personal is Political: On Misconceived Toxicity, Malice and Failures
I really didn’t mean to participate in an act of solidarity with other women who had past and current relationships with the man who raped...
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Disentangling Radical Love from Narcissism
By Lisa (Leigh) Patel Sometimes when some folks approach me out of an assumed shared cultural identity, I get tight. Recently another South Asian woman...
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the Double-Bind of Muslim Women’s Rights
By Rochelle Terman Last month, Brandeis University announced that it had reversed its decision to award Ayaan Hirsi Ali an honorary degree following grassroots organizing...
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TFW’s Aishah Shahidah Simmons participated in Philly Rally to #BringBackOurGirls
On Saturday, May 3, 2014, documentary filmmaker and TFW Associate Editor Aishah Shahidah Simmons participated in the “Rock A Gele For Our Girls” Rally held in...
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The Cult of Motherhood: A Century of Mother’s Days
By Melissa Seelye As a child growing up in the United States, I perceived our national holidays as no more artificial than the days of...
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Mother’s Day: Love and Tears
The beginning of May signals the end of the school year, the start of spring, and of course Mother’s Day. As with most American holidays,...
