By Christen Smith What do we want from each other After we have told our stories do we want to be healed do we want...
By SooJin Pate When most people think about love, it is usually a feeling that flows outward towards some person or some thing: “I love...
By Sara Salem Transnational solidarity among feminists has often been a difficult goal to achieve because of the continued dominance of Western feminism, the lack...
By Claire Tighe Criticism and self-criticism are the way in which individuals united by common goals can consciously utilize their differences and limitations, in order...
By Layli Maparyan and AnaLouise Keating Layli Maparyan (LM): How did you come to the notion of post-oppositional politics? AnaLouise Keating (ALK): I’ve only started...
Toni Cade Bambara is a life saver. Expert on Black women’s creative and spiritual practice, Akasha Gloria Hull says that Bambara’s enduring work The Salteaters induces...
By Cheryl Clarke In March 2005, Cheryl Clarke was the featured keynote speaker at Spelman College’s Women’s Research and Resource Center’s Toni Cade Bambara Scholar-Activism...
By Emily Lordi The title of this piece responds to Joshua Rothman’s recent essay for the New Yorker blog, “Why Is Academic Writing So Academic?”,...
In the name of the known and unknown ancestors upon whose shoulders we stand… Today is the end of TFW’s global forum on Black Lesbian...
Aishah Shahidah Simmons — my sister and comrade across miles and years, and the visionary behind the historic forum you’ve been reading for the...
By Kalamu ya Salaam During the tumult of the seventies, in publications such as The Black Scholar and black World, I engaged with and eventually...
By C.C. Carter It’s what happens when generation “the studied” meets generation “the studier”—connection. We, some two thousand plus miles a part from each other,...
. by e nina jay “we must not hide behind the mockeries of separations that have been imposed upon us and which we so...
A feminist is someone who is actively involved in the struggle against sexism. It’s as simple as that. That’s the bottom line. If you can’t...
By Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Beverly Guy Sheftall I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde, co-edited by Rudolph P. Byrd and...
By Jerry Wever The Audre Lorde Archival Research Seminar at Spelman College in Atlanta is such a special seminar. This year marks the third offering...
By Amoni Thompson Broken mothers raising shattered daughters reflecting familiar suns. Little black girls like me were always in some kind of trouble. Whether we...
By Melinda Goodman My writing is meant to be spoken out loud. My presence and the presence of the audience creates a sort of vibration...