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#eulogizingaretha: The Power of Aretha Louise Franklin
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Sexual Violence: Why It Can Destroy Us All
By Kenneth Pass I’ve been secretly dealing with a past sexual violation of my body for 10 years. I am a black man, and the...
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Mourning Those Lost, Fighting for Our Lives: 2013 Transgender Day of Remembrance
By Princess Harmony Imagine this: you’re born to the outside world being as healthy as you could possibly be. Imagine that while the world is...
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Fixing the World: A Feminist Intervention
Recently, NYU Press published 22 Ideas to Fix the World, edited by Piotr Dutkiewicz and Richard Sakwa. It’s a fine book, full of smart, engaging, and...
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“Writing Under Siege” by Shakeema Smalls
Today, you went to the grocery store where you inquired about a job. You’re on your last $25. Strangely, after suddenly finding yourself unemployed, you...
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In Cold Blood: The Murder of Renisha McBride
A white family grieves in outrage after their teenage daughter has been gunned down by a black homeowner in an African American neighborhood. In this parallel universe the...
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Op-Ed: Revenge Porn, the Law, and Blaming the Victim
By Carmen Rane Hudson Revenge porn has been around longer than the Internet has. It’s a phenomenon where a man, usually an angry ex, publishes...
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TFW Attends the 34th Annual National Women’s Studies Association Conference
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...
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Imagining Patsey’s Rescue by Harriet Tubman (Or, Marie Laveau’s Vengeance)
By Janell Hobson Having seen 12 Years a Slave twice (first at a fundraising event and later at a private screening and discussion), I am...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: No Fat, No Femme: The Politics of Grindr
By Nick Artrip I turn on my phone and allow my fingers to scroll across the numerous apps. I select “Grindr” and smile with anticipation. So...
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Feminists We Love: Caitlin Breedlove & SONG
Southerners on New Ground (aka SONG) has been driving intersectional queer organizing in the South since 1993. Mobilizing across race, class, gender, citizenship status, sexuality...
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The Color of Teaching: Expectations of Mammy in the Classroom
By Manya Whitaker On October 24, 2013 the Center for American Progress released a report, The State of Women of Color in the United States. In...
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Women Writers of the Diaspora with TFW Collective Member Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
.. . Join us as TFW editorial collective member Mecca Jamilah Sullivan reads at the New School for Public Engagement, as part of the Women Writers...
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What Does Solidarity Look Like? The 2014 Winter Olympics
By Paisley Currah Every two years, the Olympic Games brings the world together to celebrate sports, witness the sacrifices and determination of the competitors, and...
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“Action Expresses Priorities”: The Sochi Olympics and a Culture of Complicity
The upcoming Sochi Olympics are already shrouded in violence and inequality. It is the Olympics after all, so the political, social, and cultural entanglements between the...
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Say No to Homophobia: The 2014 Russian Olympics
By Zillah Eisenstein I have recently returned from St. Petersburg, where nationalist thugs assaulted gay pride demonstrators in June of this year after Putin passed...
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Op-Ed: What We Can Learn from the 2014 Winter Olympics?
By Wade Davis II Every four years I look forward to the Olympics. To be honest, I’m not ultra enamored with the opening day pageantry...
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Feminists We Love: Thandisizwe Chimurenga
Thandisizwe Chimurenga is an award-winning, freelance journalist based in Los Angeles. She came to journalism through activism, understanding how powerful media can be for destroying...
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What the Fashion World’s Minstrel Shows Mean for Real African Designers
By Tanwi Nandini Islam Every Halloween season, a new crop of blackface horror stories appears in the news. Word of Saturday night’s annual Hallowood “Disco...
