All posts tagged "feminism"
-
Clearing the Path for the Turtle
By Lynn Gehl − Gii-Zhigaate-Mnidoo-Kwe Recently I stated that unless “we” stand behind the person who is most oppressed, “we” will not gain the genuine...
-
Reckoning: Race and Sexual Assault in Colombia
By Stacia Penn I am a young black American living in Colombia. My life in Medellin has been a multi-faceted privilege, affording me access to...
-
Love Note To My Sistars
By Joy KMT The hardest thing for a traumatized people to do is look in the mirror and love themselves, and their reflections. I say...
-
Your Feminism Ain’t Like Ours, Because We Are Raising Quvenzhané
By Duchess Harris In Lonnae O’Neal Parker’s January 18 Washington Post article “Four Years Later, Feminists Split by Michelle Obama’s ‘Work’ as First Lady,” she includes a...
-
The Many-Headed Hydra: A Sentimental Nature Poem
By Debbie Hu oh ghost of double-headed neglected sunflower... are you arching your spine towards this literally splendiferous sunrise, are you inclining your double ghost...
-
The Tragedy of a Failed Politic
By Farah Tanis, Kalima DeSuze, and Nikki Patin Black Women’s Blueprint It is over 180 years since the abolition movement, 165 years since women’s suffrage,...
-
Across Difference, Toward Liberation: An Introduction to TFW’s Forum on Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism within Feminism
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Heather Laine Talley Perhaps in this twenty-four hour news cycle culture, the horrid sexist and racist sexualization of nine-year old...
-
COLLEGE FEMINISMS: You Become an Anti-Racist Feminist
By Cori Mattli When you are 18 and in college, you take a class that introduces you to feminism. You like thinking about feminist theory–it gives...
-
Marriage Equality and Beyond: A View from India
A few days before my Facebook News Feed was flooded with red equal signs, I went to a short march in Bangalore. The Gender and...
-
Poems by Kristen Nelson
A selected catalog of my altar from left to right The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as...
-
COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Perpetuating Patriarchy (And Other Liberal Arts-isms)
By Natalie Olivo The true tempo of my college’s student body occasionally emerges on a double-sided sheet of paper that circulates around campus five days a...
-
COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Millennial Feminists, Stand Up!
By Ashley Yenick Many college-aged women have a skewed view of feminism and how it might apply to them. Millennial feminism was brought to my...
-
Op-Ed: Where Femen Has Gone Wrong
By Mohadesa Najumi Femen is a feminist protest group founded in 2008, based in Ukraine. They received international recognition due to their direct and somewhat extreme methods of action....
-
Feminism & Me: Name Change, for Love Actually
By Nilofar Ansher Does choosing to take on your husband’s name play into the patriarchal injunctions against women’s selfhood? What follows are questions re: notions of...
-
The Erased Women of the Wall: Settler Feminism and the Moroccan Quarter
By Jimmy Johnson Tel Aviv University Professor Orly Lubin asks about Israeli feminism, “Should feminists struggle for the implementation of equal rights in the army...
-
Feminists We Love: Joan Morgan (Video)
Joan Morgan is an award-winning journalist, author and a provocative cultural critic. A pioneering hip-hop journalist, she began her professional writing career freelancing for The...
-
Deadline Approaching: Call for Submissions for TFW forum on "Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism within Feminisms"
In 1979, Black socialist feminist lesbian writer, scholar, and organizer Barbara Smith stood in front of the National Association of Women’s Studies and said the...
-
Feminist in My Kitchen
By Nilofar Ansher The Romantic Tedium of Cooking Our notions of love and nurture are bound with the flavor, texture and warmth of food cooked...