All posts tagged "U.S."
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An Open Letter to Judge Cosgrove
The following letter was written in response to the prosecution, conviction and sentencing of Ms. Kelly Williams-Bolar on two counts of felony (tampering with records)...
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Making Sense of Violence in the Aftermath of Tucson
By Yolande M. S. Tomlinson The consensus in the mainstream media, both on the left and right, is that Jared Lee Loughner’s decision to shoot...
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A Response to Ron Neal's Essay, "Kanye West Is Not a Feminist But…"
TFW supports our writers’ prerogative to take unpopular positions on important matters, but from time to time, the editors will not agree with an...
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Scales and Measures
I’ve awakened early the last few days because school started in earnest this week. Funny thing how the oldest habits linger (this particular one has...
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A Method to His Madness? Gender-Based Violence in the Tucson Shootings
By Janell Hobson By now, we have heard various theories about why 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner may have shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the head and...
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There Is Nothing Funny About Rape, But…
“There is nothing funny about rape, but…” appears in my inbox and introduces me to a video of a justifiably irate man defending his sister’s...
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MLK was no Feminist but…
TFW celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. today—not because he was a self-proclaimed feminist, but because his politics were. King’s radical notion of the “beloved community,”...
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The Onus of Black Respectability
By Terrion L. Williamson Recently, I was reading a book about the lives of black women in America in which the authors recount the story...
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Access Denied: The Ins/Outs of “What’s Down There”
Gay people have been fighting for the right to keep what happens in their bedroom private, but when it comes to our privates everyone wants...