All posts tagged "Health"
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Black Women, Black Criticism, and the Unremovable Veil of Jezebel
In her groundbreaking text, Hine Sight: Black Women and the Reconstruction of American History, black feminist scholar Darlene Clark Hine makes a distinction between black...
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Dead Center
By LeConté J. Dill The subject of Black Academic Women’s Health beckons an autoethnographic approach: October 2006. Excited to get new specs. “E D F C...
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Black, Female and Buddhist in Academia: Threats to Wellness and Opportunities for Healing
By Kamilah Majied Renown educator and Buddhist leader, Dr. Daisaku Ikeda offers a vision for academia when he states, Education makes us free. It is...
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Out of the Shadows: A Conversation with Evelyn C. White
“For every well-known black woman whose death has been noted and marked, there are countless other black women who have died in the shadows. These...
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It is not worth the grief: A recovering work addict tries to model self-care
By J. Victoria Sanders I first dreamed of being a professor and writer in seventh grade after reading Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life by...
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Occupying Myself: Resisting the Colonial Voices Within and Accepting My Heaviness
By Erin “Mari” Morales-Williams Right now I am depressed. My aunt’s husband sexually violated me when I was a teenager, and since she is still...
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Good Night Women
"ripping hot and fierce down the night sky till they are out of our pining sight, too quickly, more frequently than we can bear, their incandescent metal, incinerating,...
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The Shape of My Impact
Sounds to Me Like A Promise: On Survival (After Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years by Dagmaar Schultz) “I love the word survival, it always sounds...
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Under Ivory-Tower Eyes: Influence of Womanist Warriors as Public Intellectuals
By Lindah Mhando This is a dedication to my dear sister friend Aaronette White. The use of the word “warrior” doesn’t suggest women as warmongers ready...
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Can I Live?
By Analena Hope “Can I live?” This simple yet resounding question has been posed a number of times in different ways by Black feminists within...
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Black (Academic) Women's Health: To Be in Context
By Tressie McMillan Cottom My great grandmother used to pay me to talk, about anything and nothing. She just “loved to hear that child speak!”...
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Sisters of the “Yogic” Yam: bell hooks and the Yoga in Self-Recovery
By Sariane Leigh A 20-something skinny blond leading a yoga class gazed at me with a condescending smirk. I am doing my best to hold...
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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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Louder Than the Dark: Toward an Acoustics of Suffering
By Nicholas Brady “Fuckin pig get shot 300 men will search for me My brother get popped And don’t no one hear the sound Don’t...
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Dutch Abortion Ship Heads for Morocco
Moroccan police Thursday escorted from its waters a small yacht carrying women’s rights activists claiming to be able to perform abortions on board, after anti-abortion...
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Using Ketamine for Depression
In any given year, 7% of adults suffer from major depression, and at least 1 in 10 youth will reckon with the disorder at some point...
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World Contraception Day
Today, September 26th, is World Contraception Day. And here at TFW, we invite you to consider what contraception has meant and may still mean to...
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Walking the “Only” Road: Psychological Tight Spaces
By Shawn Ricks I have always been the child exposed to many different things, and these experiences have, in a way, saved my life. These...