All posts by Guest Contributor
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Militarism Through a Feminist Lens
By Stephanie Barnes A feminist perspective on military sexual trauma (MST) and the culture of rape in the U.S. armed forces is vital to the...
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‘Schoolin’ Life’: Teaching Beyoncé and Engaging Youth
Editors note: Just recently, several media outlets took to their cyber-phones, and began parsing what it meant for a cultural icon like Beyoncé to enter...
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bones
By Melissa Kiguwa nobody talks about the way losing a love does more than ache your heart, nobody sings the way this ache...
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Observations on "Austerity" from a Greek Feminist
By Sotiria Theoharis The economic “doom and gloom” in Greece is no accident, and it affects women disproportionately. Imagine being trapped by an evil financial...
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Culture Feature: MY BREASTS
By Elizabeth Burns I explained to the saleswoman that I didn’t want to try on a shirt in her (overpriced) boutique because, “I’m wearing the...
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Loyal Opposition: Why is the Left Taking the Race Bait?
By Omar Ricks …for a man whose only weapon is reason there is nothing more neurotic than contact with unreason.~Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks I...
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A Biblical Scholar Rebuts the Claims Made in the Eddie Long Coronation Video
By Wil Gafney I am writing this response to a YouTube video circulating widely on the internet in which Eddie Long, the troubled pastor of...
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The Golden Handcuffs of Gay Rights: How Pinkwashing Distorts both LGBTIQ and Anti-Occupation Activism
By: Jasbir K. Puar Israeli democracy, through its promotion of LGBT rights, offers golden handcuffs—a beautiful gift that comes with control—to Israeli queers. At a...
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Welcome to the New Egyptian ParliaMENt
By Ibtisam Barakat This cartoon is a response to the astonishing fact that the number of women who won seats in the post-Mubarak Egyptian parliamentary elections...
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Why the Question of Palestine is a Feminist Concern
By Neferti X. M. Tadiar I was recently part of a fact-finding delegation to Palestine organized by the US Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. The...
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TFW Forum on Palestine
Introduction: TFW Editorial Collective Member, Darnell L. Moore, recently returned from a trip to Israel/Palestine as a member of the first LGBTQI delegation to the...
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Thinking Outside the Blockbuster: Women of Color Make Films for Real Women
By Melissa Robertson For many American filmgoers it might sound unbelievable that only about 6% of all fiction filmmakers are women. However, to both professional...
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A Fly Girl: Black Sexual Politics and Beyoncé
By David J. Leonard and Kristal Moore Clemons A newly discovered horse fly by Australian scientist Bryan Lessard has become global media fodder. While usually not a...
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Lose like a Man: Who is Really Losing in the new Weight Watchers Campaign?
By David J. Leonard It seems that Charles Barkley is everywhere and that isn’t just because there are basketball games on each and every day...
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Who is Killing Us
By Terrion L. Williamson On April 1, 1979, 1,500 people gathered in the streets of Boston to memorialize the lives of six black women who...
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Why Jay-Z’s “Glory” Dedication to Blue Ivy Made this Black Man Cry
By Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. I was prepared to be scared for HOW hip-hop mogul Jay-Z and pop Diva Beyoncé would introduce their daughter, Blue Ivy,...
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“Oh Hello No”: Homophobia and those t-shirts ain’t no joke
By David J. Leonard The college football season came to an end last night. It marked the conclusion of a bowl season that has been...
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Iowa Caucus: What's in it for Women?
By Soraya Chemaly, TFW special correspondant The U.S. ranks 40th in the world for women’s political empowerment and we’re losing ground. Fortieth. This ranking, based on 2010 data,...