All posts tagged "entertainment"
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Kathryn Stockett Is Not My Sister and I Am Not Her Help
By Duchess Harris, PhD, JD. I did not attend Wednesday’s movie release of “The Help” from DreamWorks Pictures, based on the New York Times best-selling...
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Talking Vaginas and Football Heroes: Gender, Race and Advertising
Summer’s Eve has pulled its controversial “Hail to the V” ads amidst enormous criticism from feminists, bloggers, YouTube watchers and…well, just about everybody. Thank goodness...
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Putting the “X” in X-Men
Last week, Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote a fascinating editorial-cum-review of Matthew Vaughan’s X-Men: First Class in The New York Times. In it, he makes an important...
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On Her Birthday: Octavia E. Butler, Mountain Climber
Four days ago, my colleague and I decided to set off on our own, without our host, to explore London—a quick sightseeing and shopping trip...
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Music Spotlight: Diallo Hall Introduces Singer Liz Ogumbo
By Diallo Hall Music has been central to the very existence of the Luo people of East Africa since the dawn of time. Their songs...
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Who’s Afraid of Mildred Pierce?
One of the central premises of Betty Friedan’s germinal text, The Feminine Mystique(1963), is that the robust effort to restore American women to their rightful...
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The Mildred Patricia Baena Story
By Allison McCarthy A sketch from Monday night’s episode of Lopez Tonight is grabbing entertainment headlines. Comedian George Lopez claimed to have a world exclusive...
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The Defiant One: Euzhan Palcy
By Trica Danielle Keaton For Joanne and David Burke, with thanks and appreciation. Marlon Brando, Susan Sarandon, Donald Sutherland, Gérard Depardieu and the controversial American...
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Birds of Different Feathers
By Patricia Friedrich I have to confess that it was with some trepidation that I took my family to see the new animated movie Rio....
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A New Branch of the United States’ Miscegenated Family Tree: Lynn Nottage’s "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark"
By Soyica Colbert Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage’s new play By the Way, Meet Vera Stark opened at the Second Stage Theatre on April 6,...
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“Love that Girl” but Hate “those” Boys?
By Ulli K. Ryder “Love that Girl” is a new show on TVOne, starring Tatyana Ali who is best known for her role as Ashley...
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Shayne Lee, Your Revolution Will Not Happen Between These Thighs: An Open Letter
Since writing my review of Erotic Revolutionaries: Black Women, Sexuality, and Popular Culture, entitled “Erotic or Thanatic?: Black Feminist Criticism on the Ropes,” originally written for Palimpsest: A...
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Erotic or Thanatic?: Black Feminist Criticism on the Ropes
Reprinted from Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, with SUNY Press. Update: Final copy now available in Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender...
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On a Blues Woman’s Birthday
Today is singer Bessie Smith’s 117th birthday. While the particular milestone is not the most significant, the woman it relates to is. “The Empress of...
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Pity the Poor Latvians
Steven Barnes, our welcomed guest contributer, is a professional writer, lecturer, coach and television writer, juggling the challenges between each and maintaining both a blog of...
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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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Kanye West Is Not a Feminist But I Am!
The following essay is a response to “Kanye West Is Not A Feminist But…” For more information, please see the initial essay as well...
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A Response to Ron Neal's Essay, "Kanye West Is Not a Feminist But…"
TFW supports our writers’ prerogative to take unpopular positions on important matters, but from time to time, the editors will not agree with an...