Economy
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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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Proving Rape to Receive Public Assistance: Pennsylvania HB 2718
By Kalen Young Now that the adrenaline from November 6th has begun to wear off, I find my concentration turning to more localized legislation. My...
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The Work, Frontline HIV Prevention Workers, & the Labor of Love Yet To Be Done
By: Lillian Rivera, MPH & Edgar Rivera Colón, PhD December 1st, World AIDS Day, represents a multitude of things to people involved in addressing and living...
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Introducing TFW's Forum on World AIDS Day
I was in my early teens when an aunt shared that an estranged and presumably “gay” cousin, one whose name was the same as mine,...
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He’s Not the One We’ve Been Waiting For: Thoughts on Collective Effervescence, Stockholm Syndrome, Reluctant Voting, and Reclaiming “We”
“And who will join this standing up and the ones who stood without sweet company will sing and sing back into the mountains and if...
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World Contraception Day
Today, September 26th, is World Contraception Day. And here at TFW, we invite you to consider what contraception has meant and may still mean to...
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Walking the “Only” Road: Psychological Tight Spaces
By Shawn Ricks I have always been the child exposed to many different things, and these experiences have, in a way, saved my life. These...
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Massa Mitt Does South of the Border
Over the past few months, the GOP has proudly reveled in Ronald Reagan’s old chestnut that “facts are stupid things.” First, Anne Romney told us...
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I Was Raised By Welfare: A Defense of Social Safety Programs
By Bertha Alvarez Manninen A few houses down from my own, there sits a white Jeep parked in front of a middle-class suburban home. Every...
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The Limits of Reproductive Politics: Defining Women’s Issues at the DNC
Early this morning, on the train from the Charlotte suburbs into the city center for the Democratic National Convention, I met a woman visiting the...
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US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey (Lesson 3 of 3): On Embodiment at the End of the World
From the series introduction: When I first met Natasha Trethewey she was a visiting fellow at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies and she said...
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Women Ages 50-64 Hardest Hit by Recession
Middle-aged women are by far the worst hit by the recession and spending cuts, according to new research. As well as picking up family responsibilities...
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License to Pimp
When there is talk of workers’ rights and labor laws, most of us have already formed a specific image of the workers in question, and...
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The Heart of SB 1070: Racial Profiling
By C. Alejandra Elenes On Monday, June 25, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling on the constitutionality of Arizona’s anti-immigration law, SB 1070....
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3 Lessons from Natasha Trethewey: (Lesson 2) Making the Archive You Need
(Read Lesson 1 here.) From the series intro: When I first met Natasha Trethewey she was a visiting fellow at Duke University’s Center for Documentary...
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Are women occupying new movements?
At the recently concluded OpenForum, held in Cape Town South Africa, I was asked to speak to the question of whether ‘women are occupying new...
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The Invisible War: A Film on Rape, Women and Combat (A Review)
Horrifying . . . devastating . . . infuriating . . . saddening. These are the emotions I felt as I watched The Invisible War,...
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Wealth Inequality Worsening by Race
White Americans have 22 times more wealth than blacks — a gap that nearly doubled during the Great Recession. The median household net worth for...