All posts tagged "Violence"
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TFW: The Year in Review
With the intertwined mission of fostering feminist, anti-racist, and anti-imperialist perspectives, 2012 gave our contributors no shortage of topics about which to write. We saw...
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Django Unchained: A Critical Conversation Between Two Friends
By David J. Leonard and Tamura A. Lomax There have been so many great discussions on Django Unchained, so many thoughtful and engaging articles, and even...
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Gratefulness
The holiday season is not just about gifts and Santa Claus, it’s about being grateful for what you have and recognizing the people who are...
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Talking About Grief and Violence
From the editors: Here at TFW, we have many, many email and phone conversations that never make their way onto our site. We bounce ideas...
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Black Survival in the Uchromatic Dark
By Tavia Nyong’o With all the rock dinosaurs that thundered the Madison Square Garden dome during Wednesday’s 12-12-12 benefit concert, a viewer might have missed...
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Indian Sex Workers More Than Vectors of Disease
By Gowri Vijayakumar Embedded within a recent New York Times piece about sex work in India is a problematic set of assumptions—a conflation of individualization...
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Proving Rape to Receive Public Assistance: Pennsylvania HB 2718
By Kalen Young Now that the adrenaline from November 6th has begun to wear off, I find my concentration turning to more localized legislation. My...
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For the Women of Ciudad Juárez
In late September of 2012, we gathered at the site where the remains of eight murdered women and girls were found in an open...
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Ten to Twelve Days
By Liz A. As soon as I arrived, I was pissed that there were people standing in line outside. As I walked to my spot,...
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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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The Spectator Sport of Bashing Black Women
By Sikivu Hutchinson In the 1990s, The O.J. Simpson murder trial polarized America and highlighted domestic violence as a national cause célèbre. At the center...
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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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Violence Knows No Gender
By Xoaquima Díaz I never thought I would end up in an abusive relationship. Not only because I had always considered myself smarter than that, above...
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Violence on the Border
By Laura Ilardo They say that the US-Mexico border is a very dangerous place. Surrounded by cactus, scrub, and hundreds of miles of dry desert,...
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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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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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Bait Car
By Tria Andrews Maybe to you crime will always be black and white. Maybe because you’ve worked hard and have something to show for that work....