Republican aides emphasize that their bosses are not against the Violence Against Women Act, originally passed in 1994 and reauthorized at least twice by Congress....
By Arizona Ethnic Studies Network On February 29, 2012, members of the Arizona Ethnic Studies Network held a Read-in at Wesley Bolin Plaza across from...
Is grief a disease? That is one of the crucial questions psychologists are asking as the American Psychiatric Association revises its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental...
People living with a mental health problem or illness report a variety of experiences interacting with police in British Columbia, suggesting a need for better...
By Vali Forrister When my niece, Haviland, was 12 years old, she shared her poetry with me for the first time. I told her it...
By Gwendoline Y. Fortune Food and love, who (and what) we vote for, what we deem good or bad, what we want and hate—all rise...
Editors note: Just recently, several media outlets took to their cyber-phones, and began parsing what it meant for a cultural icon like Beyoncé to enter...
By Melissa Kiguwa nobody talks about the way losing a love does more than ache your heart, nobody sings the way this ache...
What is the appropriate response to Die, bitch? Recently, I’ve had occasion to ponder this question and a broader cultural predicament in which all public...
By Elizabeth Burns I explained to the saleswoman that I didn’t want to try on a shirt in her (overpriced) boutique because, “I’m wearing the...
Facebook features more than 800 million users, most of which are female, but it seems it’s female dominated network isn’t represented in its board of directors. The...
By Monica J. Casper and Mason Casper-Milam On March 23, 2012, The Hunger Games comes to cinematic life in the U.S.; the trailer promises much...
By Melissa Robertson For many American filmgoers it might sound unbelievable that only about 6% of all fiction filmmakers are women. However, to both professional...
By David J. Leonard and Kristal Moore Clemons A newly discovered horse fly by Australian scientist Bryan Lessard has become global media fodder. While usually not a...
By David J. Leonard It seems that Charles Barkley is everywhere and that isn’t just because there are basketball games on each and every day...
By Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. I was prepared to be scared for HOW hip-hop mogul Jay-Z and pop Diva Beyoncé would introduce their daughter, Blue Ivy,...
Three white women crowd the ticket window. “What is Pariah?” one asks, flustered. The ticket vender stammers. “It’s, uh, kind of a slice-of-life among kids...
Introduction: TFW Editorial Collective member, Darnell L. Moore, recently facilitated an insightful and incite(ful) dialogue on Black/Brown girlhood with scholars/artists/activists Ruth Nicole Brown and Aimee...