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Just Because: Colorblindness Is a Real Problem
By Mohadesa Najumi **This post is dedicated to all the strong people of the world who persevere every day for justice in the face of mass ignorance, resistance and a fusillade of criticism that the...
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Treva B. Lindsey: The Future and the Now
Dr. Treva B. Lindsey is very much the future – of black popular cultural studies, feminist scholarship, social media activism, and so much more. Someone who is pushing conversations about feminism,...
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The Gentle Critique in Activist Spaces: A Newby’s First Year Journey on...
By Kimbo Grama Can the online become the lifeline? We’re told, it’s not possible; we’re told that that people we meet in online forums are not real. They’re fake friends and associates, whom we don’t...
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Room without a roof
By Swati Bandi If I were to map myself, how would I begin? I am a 36 year old woman, a mother, a professor, a loving partner – writing a dissertation. Despite all of the things I am, the perpetual...
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Emily Lordi: Moving us beyond critique one artist at a time
I am really not sure when I first read the work of Dr. Emily Lordi. It could have been her piece on Janelle Monae; maybe it was her piece on Bilal. These works, and her most recent pieces on Beyoncé...
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The Future: Resistance Beyond Apathy
The lamenting of “today’s youth” and their so-called apathy, ignorance and self-indulgence is nothing new. Each successive generation is often dismissed by “adults” who publicly shame the “future”...
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For Darker Sisters
By Ahmad Greene-Hayes I am the great-great-great grandson of former enslaved Georgians—the Johnson family to be exact. I come from a lineage of individuals whom I do not know, and unfortunately know...
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Feminists We Love: Regina Bradley
I don’t remember the first time I met Dr. Regina Bradley. It might have been on Twitter; it might have been on Facebook; it might have been after she wrote a brilliant piece for New Black Man (In...
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Finding Your Different
By Vaidehi Mujumdar We’ve already buried so much of our different, it feels so hard to find. Almost every day, my friend and I exchange poetry, current articles, quotes, and the casual Buzzfeed posts...
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The Radical Politics of Self-Love and Self-Care
By SooJin Pate When most people think about love, it is usually a feeling that flows outward towards some person or some thing: “I love my mom,” “I love chocolate,” or “I love my partner.” This is not...
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Woman Made From Iron
By Mohadesa Najumi Dedicated to my mother. They try to shrink you. Tame you. Convince you that all your rage is a product of your own deficiencies and not theirs. They tell you to cover up. Sink in....
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Feminists We Love: Katarzyna Marciniak
Dr. Katarzyna Marciniak is Professor of Transnational Studies in the English Department at Ohio University. Her research interests include Transnational Feminist Media Studies, Cinema and Media of...
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F-Bombs to Live By: Feminism, Faith and Functional practices
By Stephany Rose I don’t hate white men. Though having to directly assert such a position is evidence for why my work of Abolishing White Masculinity is so critical in this present day race...
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TFW’s Heidi R. Lewis to Teach in Berlin
This summer, from May 25 to June 15, TFW Associate Editor Heidi R. Lewis (Colorado College) will be teaching a course in Berlin on Afro-German Women and Feminism. Heidi and her students will be...
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the Double-Bind of Muslim Women’s Rights
By Rochelle Terman Last month, Brandeis University announced that it had reversed its decision to award Ayaan Hirsi Ali an honorary degree following grassroots organizing by students and alumni who...
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Women with Bad Aim
By Colleen Ladd A group of girls stand in line at the back of a large house with white French doors, the only thing that divides you and your group as outsiders. This is the fourth door you’ve been to...
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The Politics of Turning Rape Into “Nonconsensual Sex”
By Breanne Fahs A few weeks ago, Al Jazeera ran a piece that critically traced the obfuscation of rape language from the (violent, highly politicized, and potentially stigmatizing) rape to the...
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“Infiltrate What Exists, Innovate What Doesn’t”: Mentoring in the Academy,...
Image credit: http://youthdownsouth.org/journey/mentoring-101/ In her 2010 presidential address to the American Studies Association, Ruthie Wilson Gilmore invited us to “infiltrate what exists,...
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“Infiltrate What Exists, Innovate What Doesn’t”: Mentoring in the Academy,...
In the second installment, I discuss scholarship and service, two components of a professional development portfolio that academic women often fall short because they are so focused on teaching....
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Poetry By Jaclyn Weber
The Walking Dead Girl in my history class totally started looking like a zombie from The Walking Dead. Maybe I’m watching too much Walking Dead… She’s shake, shake, shaking those...
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