Academia
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Perpetuating Patriarchy (And Other Liberal Arts-isms)
By Natalie Olivo The true tempo of my college’s student body occasionally emerges on a double-sided sheet of paper that circulates around campus five days a...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Millennial Feminists, Stand Up!
By Ashley Yenick Many college-aged women have a skewed view of feminism and how it might apply to them. Millennial feminism was brought to my...
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Feminists We Love: Kaila Adia Story
Kaila Adia Story (Ph.D., African American Studies & Women’s Studies Temple University M.A., African American Studies Temple University; B.A. Women’s Studies DePaul University) is an associate professor...
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Feminists We Love: Joan Morgan (Video)
Joan Morgan is an award-winning journalist, author and a provocative cultural critic. A pioneering hip-hop journalist, she began her professional writing career freelancing for The...
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Deadline Approaching: Call for Submissions for TFW forum on "Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism within Feminisms"
In 1979, Black socialist feminist lesbian writer, scholar, and organizer Barbara Smith stood in front of the National Association of Women’s Studies and said the...
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What Do We Talk About When We Talk About American Indian Imagery in Sports: Thoughts on Mascots and Racialized Masculinity
By C. Richard King When we talk about Native American mascots, we are talking about the entanglements of race and gender. It is easy to...
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Race, Feminism and the Academy: I Got Out of Pocket
When The Onion called nine-year-old Oscar phenom Quvenzhané Willis a gendered, sexualized slur, like thousands of others I watched it unfold live on Twitter. In...
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Op-Ed: Lessons From Brooklyn College: A Victory For BDS, Academic Freedom, and the Vanquishing of Bullies
By: Katherine Franke In case you haven’t heard, last Thursday night Judith Butler and Omar Barghouti spoke at Brooklyn College about the notion of using...
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Conversation Piece: Queer Fashion on Campus
During the 2012 presidential election, there was much conversation among journalists, bloggers, and activists about the innovative ways students were using social media to mobilize...
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Exhuming the Ratchet before it’s Buried
Recently, social media was set ablaze after Oxygen revealed it was developing a reality TV show featuring rapper Shawty Lo (real name Carlos Walker) entitled,...
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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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Elite Women Won’t Help Us All Have it All
By Nikol Alexander-Floyd, Michele Tracy Berger, and Julia Jordan-Zachery Anne-Marie Slaughter is right! Women can’t have it all, particularly not if our hope for having...
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Black Feminist Intellectual: A Conversation with Professor Imani Perry
DM: At present, you hold a primary appointment as a Professor within the Center for African American Studies and a secondary appointment in Law and Public...
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Blessing Racism
By Valorie Thomas A professor-friend of mine once said, “You can’t shine dirt.” Her words replay nonstop as I consider several convergences: two days after...
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Take Care: Notes on the Black (Academic) Women’s Health Forum
By Aimee Meredith Cox, Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Tamura A. Lomax With every piece I read, I felt like a layer of my skin was...
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Subversive Self-Care: Centering Black Women’s Wellness
By Shanesha Brooks-Tatum Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. —Audre Lorde, A Burst of...
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Hanging up the Cape: Practicing the Ethic of Self Care
By Natalie T. J. Tindall and Markesha S. McWilliams Research in Brief Tindall, N.T.J. & McWilliams, M.S. (2011). The myth and mismatch of balance: Black...
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I Ain't Your Girl: Controlling Identities and Acts of Isolation in the Academy
By Shannon Gibney & Anonymous Throughout this essay, the pronoun “we” is used, in order to mark experiences shared by both authors. When the narrative...
