All posts tagged "Culture"
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It's Not The Load That Breaks You Down; It's The Way You Carry It
By Kamilah Aisha Moon Five strong, consistent years as an adjunct professor. So what? So what you spend extra, unpaid hours assisting students who arrive needing...
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Voting as a Radical Act
By: Isaiah M. Wooden and Darnell L. Moore In a different presidential election year, 2004, Comedy Central’s ever-popular sketch series, Chapelle’s Show, featured a boundlessly...
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Queer the Vote
By: Samuel “Basil” Soper In first grade, my teacher asked, “Do you know who your parents are voting for?” I announced to my peers that...
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What Does Democracy Look Like?
I’m feeling very ambivalent about voting and electoral politics more generally these days. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I’m ineligible...
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Princess Sofia and Barack Obama: Why I Must Choose Accordingly
For the students enrolled in Latino/a Pop at UT Austin, Fall 2012. Is it a coincidence that Disney launched the promotional campaign for its first...
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Introduction to TFW Voting Forum
Over the course of this election season, TFW has wrestled with the idea of issuing political endorsements. As a Collective, we are committed to a...
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A Feminist Review of Hotel Transylvania
Hotel Transylvania is an animated movie about a hotel for monsters. The film starts by following the lives of two main characters, Mavis and her...
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Fluency
By Royce K. Freeman I used to be fluent. Still dream sometimes in my Native tongue. My mother tells me I would talk...
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Coming-of-Age in Sal Si Puedes
By Rosebud Ben-Oni —Baghdad Beach, Matamoros, Mexico Even the gulls scuttled from the surf: a grey arm erect and bit of shoulder wrapped in electrical...
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Riding Past the Limits of Coalition Politics
By Juliana “Jewels” Smith For the first time since I was a teenager, I started riding my bike when I was in graduate school at...
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The Hooferman
By Natalie Diaz I started believing in the Hooferman the night Boy pulled the rope from the old canal—it lifted from the dirt inches at...
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Tradition Left These
By Royce K. Freeman Critique of tradition happens in the tongue and cheek. It happens while the shadows tend to a bruised back,...
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Surgery Successful for Pakistani Girl Shot by Taliban
Malala Yousufzai, the 15-year old who was shot by the Taliban in Pakistan on October ninth, has undergone successful surgery to remove the bullet from...
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The Precarity of Latino/a Child-Citizen Subjects: From Dora the Explorer to Child Deportees
What is a child-citizen subject? Put simply, it encompasses children’s right to exist, grow, and live in a country while being seen as a secondary...
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Culture Feature: Tarfia Faizullah
By Tarfia Faizullah Aubade: Doctor’s Appointment In the longspun morning I go to return my body to itself to open it wide to hands...
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Reframing the Discussion: Concluding Thoughts on the Forum on Muslim Feminisms.
By Dana Olwan and Sophia Azeb For too long, Muslim feminists have endured the question of whether Islam and feminism can coexist. This seemingly innocent...
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Pot Roast and Imperial Justifications
By Amal Rana “how come you don’t cover your hair?” my breath punches out of me in one big gasp as I pretend not to hear...
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Palestinian Women's Killings Spark Outcry Over Lax Laws
Four recent cases of Palestinian women slain allegedly at the hand of relatives have prompted women and human rights groups to demand tougher laws against...