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An Open Letter to Our Sister, CeCe McDonald
By Brothers Writing to Live Dear CeCe, This letter to you, sister, is past due. We are late to the struggle. And for that we...
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Dear Facebook Friend: A Primer on Racism
By LaKisha Simmons In response to your racist memes and our ensuing discussion. You believe that race “doesn’t matter in today’s day,” that you treat all...
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Feminists We Love: Cheryl Cooky
Cheryl Cooky is an Associate Professor of Health & Kinesiology and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Purdue University. She earned a M.A. and Ph.D....
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Miley’s Big Foam Finger Is Pointing At You: Stereotypes Plus Objectification Equals $$$
By Hope Wabuke I swore I wasn’t going to write about Miley Cyrus. Enough people have already done it. Enough good ink has been spilled...
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Three Poems by Meredith Trede
By Meredith Trede Surviving Birds As you pack, you tell me the swans attacked during your dawn river swim. Their fierce wings...
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Race and The Invisible Cloak of “Black”
By Kuukua Yomekpe Two years into living in the U.S. a carload of Anglo American boys tried to run my two younger sisters and me over...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: A Critical Analysis of Orange Is The New Black: The Appropriation Of Women Of Color
By Mohadesa Najumi Since finishing NetFlix’s hit new series “Orange Is the New Black” about a 32-year old white woman named Piper Chapman, who serves 15 months...
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***UPDATED***Call for Submissions: TFW Forum on Disabilities, Ableism, and Disability Studies
Forum Editors: Eddie Ndopu, Heather Laine Talley, and Monica J. Casper At TFW, we aim to not only produce feminist content but to embody our...
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A Trip to Richmond
By Starita Smith Richmond, Virginia is the ultimate recycling of the human experience. It is like an urban trompe l’oeil in which places where atrocities...
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Date Rape: The Aftermath
By Anonymous I should have known before reading Brittany Burton’s essay, “You Have No Idea,” that it would reopen what I thought I’d so carefully...
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Op-Ed: When A Mother Chooses the Pump
By Swati Marquez Three days after I gave birth — following 54 hours of labor, including eighteen hours of IV fluids that left me (and...
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Finding Her Mother’s Gardens: A Review of Pratibha Parmar’s “Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth”
Black women have tended to incredible, secluded gardens within the expansive wasteland of this dysfunctional democracy.–Joy James, from “Resting in the Gardens, Battling in the...
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Feminists We Love: Amy Wheeler
In 2000, I left my ex and a slew of memories in Santa Cruz and relocated to Whidbey Island, Washington, where I secured a sweet...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: getting naked
By Isabel Liu He asks if he can draw me. It’s a mid-April evening, finally warm enough for me to open the windows at night....
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Wall of Shame: Vicki Marble
Yesterday, Colorado State Senator Vicki Marble linked racial disparities in poverty and health to…eating chicken and barbecue. The Republican from Fort Collins shared her views...
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Armor
By Jac’leen Smith The intended purpose of armor is to protect. To use in combat. To shield the exterior from harm. But what happens when...
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You Have No Idea
By Brittany “Beebs” Burton Until you’ve been raped, you have no idea what it’s like. You don’t know what it’s like to walk into a...
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Lee Daniels’ Double Consciousness
By Frank Roberts In a formative scene that occurs about midway through Lee Daniels’ The Butler, audiences are presented with imagery from two widely divergent events...
