Region
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Women's Lower Status Puts Asia's Future at Risk
The Asia Society survey on women’s status in health, education, economic activity and political leadership urges improvements to ensure the region benefits fully from its underused...
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World Water Day: Clean Water Empowers Women, Girls
March 22 is World Water Day, but for many people around the world, securing safe drinking water is still not obtainable. While unsafe water effects...
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Police Rescue 24,000 Women, Children from Chinese Sex Trafficking Ring
A year after the Chinese government started targeting human trafficking, the country’s security ministry reported that in the last year police had rescued 24,000 women...
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Women Use Graffiti Art to Protest Egyptian Government
After playing an integral part of the revolutionary efforts last year, Egyptian women fear their rights will not be incorporated into the country’s political reforms....
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The Occupation Stole My Words, June Jordan Helped me to Relocate Them
Dedicated to June Jordan (who still lives among us) My friends had expected retellings of my journey when I arrived back from Israel and the...
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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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Mitt Romney's Evolving Attitude Toward Women
By Amanda Winkler Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are speaking out about GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s attitude toward women, asserting...
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Help for "The Help"
By Gwendoline Y. Fortune, Ed. D. Within twenty-four hours, friends sent three critical reviews of “The Help,” a film that is garnering high praise, boosting sales...
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A View from London
At the time of writing, the protests that began two nights ago in the North London neighborhood of Tottenham have developed into full-blown riots in...
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Resurrecting the Great Mother
By Rev. Sheri Heller, LCSW “I found god in myself and I loved her /I loved her fiercely.” – Ntozake Shange We come into this world...
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A Prophet in Exile: A Personal Meditation on James Baldwin
By Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou After the re-election of George W. Bush, I was done with America. Less than a year into Bush’s second term, I...
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“Say What?!” N.J. Governor Christie’s Proposed Cuts to Medicaid Changes Eligibility from $24,645 to $5,317 for a Family of Three!
By Joy Schulman MEDICAID/MEDICARE—it’s all so confusing! What are we talking about?? Recently, Medicare and Medicaid have often been used interchangeably; though they are quite...
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Sixty-two hours in Cairo
By Adam John Waterman For Beth Cleary and Peter Rachleff The history of civilization which began in Egypt was not so much a matter of...
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Special Message from the Editors
We are delighted that our colleague and Editorial Collective member—Nahum Chandler—and his family—his wife Ayumi and their son Aaron—are doing fine. Residents of Kyoto, Japan,...
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The Wrong One, Let In
On Friday, March 4th, Connecticut police finally arrested the infamous “East Coast Rapist.” Now known as 39-year old unemployed truck driver Aaron H. Thomas, the...
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"If You Scared Just Say It": Black and Queer with Nothing to Prove- A Preview of Shirlette and the Dynamite Brothers
Play the song before it plays you. Turn it on before game recognizes game. Touch the wound inside before it heals. This is the...
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MLK was no Feminist but…
TFW celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. today—not because he was a self-proclaimed feminist, but because his politics were. King’s radical notion of the “beloved community,”...