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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Hillary Clinton for President? Why She’s Not the Woman We...
By: Aviva DeKornfeld Illustration by Alex Fine Illustration Hillary Clinton is a woman and as it turns out, this is big news. Back in 2012, both Clinton and Barak Obama fought for the Democratic...
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Return from ZombieLand: Academia, Substance Abuse, and Accountability
By Olubukola Yetunde Ogundipe On April 18th 2015, I was hospitalized due to an acute mental breakdown. While this episode was the first of its nature for me, the events that led up to that...
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Act Out features TFW’s Heidi R. Lewis
Heidi R. Lewis, Ph.D. Heidi R. Lewis, Assistant Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies at Colorado College and Associate Editor for TFW, was recently interviewed by Eleanor Goldfield on Act Out!, a...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Speak: My Own Transformation from Silence
By Hannah Robb *”Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* I have come to believe over and over again that what is most...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, UConn’s Dangerous Politics: Valuing Profit Over Students’...
By Lisa Vickers *”Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* When the University of Connecticut (UConn) men’s basketball team won...
View ArticleEMERGING FEMINISMS, Deleted Scenes and Improper Acts: Scars from Reoccurring...
By Shither *”Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* The spatial organization of the conference room suggests...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Sexual Consent in NOT Color-Blind: A Black Feminist Call...
By Akiera Xavina Charles *”Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* As a humble Afro-Caribbean, Bedstuy native, who is a...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, for the professor who hurt me & got away with it
By Martina “Mick” Powell *”Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* i will let you have this & nothing more. palm...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, End to Beginning
By Sa Fa *”Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* and then one day you finish your last paper and start cleaning your room....
View ArticleEMERGING FEMINISMS, Dear Communities: In Lieu of a Conclusion to the...
Dear Communities: We are grateful for your engagement with this Forum over these past two and half weeks—reading, comments, and sharing with others. Your interest in the Forum and continued support of...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, I Am A “Failure” To China, But Let’s “Fail” Together
By Yaqing Yang I’ve grown a “failure” to my Dad and “lost” to my Mom and Gram. Yesterday, I read an article published by BuzzFeed on the last surviving women with bound feet (also called “lotus feet”...
View ArticleCollective Statement on Precarity and the Demand for Feminist Accountability...
STATEMENT TO THE LEADERSHIP OF THE NATIONAL WOMEN’S STUDIES ASSOCIATION ~~~ In the aftermath of the 2015 National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Annual Conference focused on “Precarity,” we write...
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#Feministcare: TFW on winter break for the month of December
Dearest Readers, Thank you for your continued support. And thank you for loving us and valuing our work. It’s been quite the year. As you know, TFW believes in self care. We work this #thirdshift all...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Screws, Servos, and Sexism: How Men Almost Made Me Quit...
By Jordan Prochnow During my sophomore year in high school, I joined the robotics team. The majority of the team consisted of mostly boys; my senior boyfriend, his best friends, several junior boys,...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Is Shonda Rhimes a Feminist?
By Alexander Stoffel Jake and Olivia, Scandal. Photo: ABC/Tony Rivetti. Season five of Shonda Rhimes’s wildly popular show Scandal drew approximately eight million viewers per episode. What does it...
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For June
By Tamara Lea Spira June Jordan, “Nicaragua: Why I Had to Go There,” Essence Magazine, January 1984. In our current times of collective struggle’s reinvigoration, the life and works of June Jordan...
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June Jordan, Genre Fiction, and Publishing for the People
By Aya de Leon June Jordan was a gorgeous embodiment of intersections and contradictions throughout her life. 2016 marks my 10th year as her successor as the Director of Poetry for the People in the...
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the oath
By jim saliba the oath in a sunny living room near 30th and dolores, my acting teacher handed me a poem and had me read it out loud. it was “poem about my rights.” i had never heard of june jordan...
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martina pronounces her own name (ode to June Jordan)
By Martina “Mick” Powell for June Jordan this is how i learn it: her black and in cropped cut and singsong her in a summer water, the florida of it all her in a black that made muscle out of these...
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June Jordan Solves the Energy Crisis: Love is Lifeforce
By Alexis Pauline Gumbs Wholehearted. For June Jordan. By Alexis Pauline Gumbs Not many people are turning to black feminist texts from the 1970s as their major strategy for addressing the current...
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