By Mohadesa Najumi Since finishing NetFlix’s hit new series “Orange Is the New Black” about a 32-year old white woman named Piper Chapman, who serves 15 months...
Forum Editors: Eddie Ndopu, Heather Laine Talley, and Monica J. Casper At TFW, we aim to not only produce feminist content but to embody our...
By Starita Smith Richmond, Virginia is the ultimate recycling of the human experience. It is like an urban trompe l’oeil in which places where atrocities...
By Anonymous I should have known before reading Brittany Burton’s essay, “You Have No Idea,” that it would reopen what I thought I’d so carefully...
By Swati Marquez Three days after I gave birth — following 54 hours of labor, including eighteen hours of IV fluids that left me (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...
In 2000, I left my ex and a slew of memories in Santa Cruz and relocated to Whidbey Island, Washington, where I secured a sweet...
By Isabel Liu He asks if he can draw me. It’s a mid-April evening, finally warm enough for me to open the windows at night....
Yesterday, Colorado State Senator Vicki Marble linked racial disparities in poverty and health to…eating chicken and barbecue. The Republican from Fort Collins shared her views...
By Jac’leen Smith The intended purpose of armor is to protect. To use in combat. To shield the exterior from harm. But what happens when...
By Brittany “Beebs” Burton Until you’ve been raped, you have no idea what it’s like. You don’t know what it’s like to walk into a...
By Frank Roberts In a formative scene that occurs about midway through Lee Daniels’ The Butler, audiences are presented with imagery from two widely divergent events...
By Sukjong Hong I long for the day when a woman can speak about her experience of rape with all the force of her convictions, as...
By Darrian Wesley Thomas Dear Uncle Rush, Pull up a chair. We need to handle some family business. So, I saw the “Harriet Tubman Sex...
By Lillie Anne Brown A few years ago, an African American comedian joked about having to move in with his mother because he was down on...
Tomi-Ann Roberts is a Professor of Psychology at Colorado College, where she is also a core faculty member in the Feminist & Gender Studies program. ...
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...
Nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary in 2010, U People is a music video, a documentary LGBT film, and a...