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Confessions of a Complicated Latina Feminist
By Juliana Britto Schwartz “You Americans, why are you so obsessed with labels?” The way my Brazilian cousin looks at me, she might as well...
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I’m Complicated, Just like Feminisms: A Black and White Feminist Working It Out (Part II)
On Friday, April 26, TFW published Part I of a conversation between myself and Dr. Connie Ruzich about all things feminism, race, socioeconomic status, religion, and...
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Op Ed: Defying Antiblackness at UC Irvine—and Everywhere
By John Murillo III The University of California, Irvine’s Black Student Union continues to act in response to one instance in a lengthy genealogy of...
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Silence Does Not Equal Absence: Lessons from Arizona
By Wendy Cheng When I heard what writers at The Onion had tweeted about nine-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis during the Oscars, I felt it as a...
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Visual Art: "bang bang" by Theresa Anderson
________________________________________________________ Theresa Anderson is a Denver-based interdisciplinary artist and a writer whose art blog was selected as a top five finalist by the Westword 2012 Denver...
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Visual Art: "Cupcake Feminism" by Lynn Gehl−Gii-Zhigaate-Mnidoo-Kwe
Lynn Gehl−Gii-Zhigaate-Mnidoo-Kwe, Ph.D. is an Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe from the Ottawa River Valley. She has a section 15 Charter challenge regarding the continued sex discrimination...
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I’m Complicated, Just like Feminisms: A Black and White Feminist Working It Out (Part I)
Dr. Connie Ruzich and I first met soon after I walked onto the Robert Morris University campus in 1999. I thought I’d become a Finance...
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Un-Raced in Transit : Colorblindness and the Stakes of Speaking Up
By Marlaina H. Martin For every one of the countless times that I have thought about race, I can name a handful in which I...
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Film: "Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights" by Nevline Nnaji
Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights is a feature-length documentary that focuses on black women’s marginalization between the Black Power and Feminist movements, as...
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Reckoning: Race and Sexual Assault in Colombia
By Stacia Penn I am a young black American living in Colombia. My life in Medellin has been a multi-faceted privilege, affording me access to...
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Your Feminism Ain’t Like Ours, Because We Are Raising Quvenzhané
By Duchess Harris In Lonnae O’Neal Parker’s January 18 Washington Post article “Four Years Later, Feminists Split by Michelle Obama’s ‘Work’ as First Lady,” she includes a...
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The Tragedy of a Failed Politic
By Farah Tanis, Kalima DeSuze, and Nikki Patin Black Women’s Blueprint It is over 180 years since the abolition movement, 165 years since women’s suffrage,...
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Across Difference, Toward Liberation: An Introduction to TFW’s Forum on Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism within Feminism
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Heather Laine Talley Perhaps in this twenty-four hour news cycle culture, the horrid sexist and racist sexualization of nine-year old...
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On Guns, Fetuses, and “Pro-Life” Hypocrisy
Last week, while grieving parents of the children killed in Newtown were tearfully urging gun control measures, Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Tex.) boldly launched—to well deserved...
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First To Die: Evil Dead and Blackness in Horror
By Joshua Alston The victor in this weekend’s box-office battle was Evil Dead, the remake of Sam Raimi’s 1981 cult-classic horror film, which roared into...
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Radical Birthwork as an Act of Resistance
By Ynanna Djehuty I like to open with definitions. The usage of words and knowing the weight they hold is important to all discourse, regardless...
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On Mistreating Female Athletes
By Allison Javors and Wade Davis, II I fell in love with Women’s College Basketball in 1993. I can remember watching Sheryl Swoopes score 47...
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Cynthia Wachenheim and the Impossible Terrain of Motherhood
By Alison Piepmeier As Keira Williams wrote here recently, Cynthia Wachenheim killed herself—and attempted to kill her son—because she felt that she’d been a terrible...