Bodies
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Toward a Feminist Politics of De-Criminalization and Abolition: Why We Support Dr. Mireille Miller-Young
By Tamara L. Spira and Heather M. Turcotte We contest the criminalization of UC Santa Barbara feminist studies professor, Dr. Mireille Miller-Young. As feminists dedicated...
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Personal is Political: To My BlackTransSistas: A letter of Healing, Reconciliation, and Love
Kristen Smith writes an open letter to Black transwomen for #personalIsPoliticalOnTFW, "I am not your part-time ally, only serving when acts against you are so...
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Op-Ed: What We Lose When We Focus Our Discussion on Jared Leto Rather than Rayon: Queer Politics and the Forgotten Heroes of the AIDS Crisis
By Mairead Sullivan While Rayon’s death in the Dallas Buyers Club was not the stereotypical death of a tragic transgender character, it was a tragic...
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TFW’s Sikivu Hutchinson and Aishah Shahidah Simmons Partner to Address Sexual Violence with Youth in South Los Angeles
On Friday, March 7, 2014, TFW Associate Editor Aishah Shahidah Simmons gave a presentation on the importance of naming and ending sexual violence with approximately 50...
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Redefining Realness by Janet Mock (Book Review)
By David B. Green, Jr. I have learned through the process of story telling and sharing that we all come from various walks of life...
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Nicki Minaj and Pretty Taking All Fades: Performing the Erotics of Feminist Solidarity
By Jillian Hernandez and Anya M. Wallace This essay aims to consider an erotics of feminist solidarity, not a solidarity that only decries the...
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New Revolutions? Finding and Naming Them for Transnational Feminisms
By Zillah Eisenstein My writing is a small offering to give political voice to the extra-ordinary attempt at trans-national and cultural and racial and class...
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Continuing the Celebration: Feminist Studies Celebrates Audre Lorde
Aishah Shahidah Simmons — my sister and comrade across miles and years, and the visionary behind the historic forum you’ve been reading for the...
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The Battle Against Misogyny at Spelman College
By Banah Gha As a student at Spelman College, I want to share our story of activist organizing against misogyny, misogynoir, as Moya Bailey puts...
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Dear Audre:
By J. Bob Alotta Preface. There is a framed poster of Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich in my office. It is a poster for a...
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Feminists We Love: Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins, M.D., M.Sc. [VIDEO]
“We are feminist warriors, not perfectionists.” ~ Lisa Factora-Borchers ~ I begin with my sister Lisa Factora-Borchers’ quote to remind myself that striving for perfection is actually...
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There is one path and one path only, it is the path towards embodied liberations
By Jessica Horn Editors Note: We were scheduled to post a reflection by Jessica Horn later in this second week of our global forum celebrating...
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Dear Audre…Epistolary Poems for Our Lorde
By Lyndon K. Gill In early June of 2013, the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) convened its thirty-eighth annual conference in Grand Anse, Grenada. Just a...
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Love Poem Legacies: Activating Collective Erotic Power in the Name of the Lorde
Sometimes it comes down to the pronouns. When Audre Lorde first tried to publish “Love Poem” in her 1973 collection From a Land Where...
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Blackbody Radiation and Blackbody Curve (Two Poems)
By Samiya Bashir Blackbody Radiation isotropic catalyst intake breath o barometric interference squall omen o friction: still sky winder o ...
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Breast Cancer: Lessons That Audre Lorde Taught Me
By Tanya Christian A Black feminist, lesbian, mother, socialist, and warrior poet, Audre Lorde embraced her “outsider” status and wore it like a badge of...
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For Lucia Mcbath, Sybrina Fulton and All Other Black Mothers Who’ve Considered Righteous Rage When Black Respectability Politics Ain’t Enough
In “What is this “black” in black popular culture? (Rethinking Race),” the late, great cultural theorist Stuart Hall, poignantly asks, “What sort of moment is...
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Black Female Too-Muchness: Between Hypersexual Norms and Respectable Exceptions
By Janell Hobson Ten years ago, pop star Janet Jackson received the brunt of public outrage – which culminated in FCC fines – when Justin...
