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Faux-Apology Not Accepted: Fire Rush Limbaugh for His Hateful Misogyny
By Soraya Chemaly Rush Limbaugh’s limp quasi-apology to Sandra Fluke isn’t good enough. Clear Channel Communications, the largest radio station owner in the US, should fire him and establish a...
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Who Will Revere Us? (Black LGTBQ People, Straight Women, and Girls) (Part 1)
The title of this four part article is a metaphorical nod to the legendary jazz singer, songwriter, actor, and activist Abbey Lincoln (also known as Aminata Moseka) whose essay, “Who Will Revere The...
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Who Will Revere US? (Black LGTBQ People, Straight Women, and Girls) (Part 4)
This is Part 4 of a four part article. Immediately following is the introduction to the series, originally published April 23, 2012, for your convenience. Part 1 can be read in its entirety here. Part...
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Siempre En Mi Mente: On Trans* Violence
By Francisco J. Galarte For Gwen This month marks the ten-year anniversary of the death of Gwen Amber Rose Araujo, a Mexican American transgender woman who was brutally murdered in Newark, California,...
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TFW Interviews an Expert in the HIV Prevention Field: Dr. David Malebranche
TFW: The theme for World AIDS Day from 2011-2015, which is “Getting to Zero: Zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS related deaths,” is a forward-looking goal that some may read as...
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Race and Community Accountability
By Qui Dorian Alexander I came into feminism as a butch Latina lesbian at a women’s college. Today I stand as a brown queer trans masculine person who moves through the world read as a cis brown man. I...
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Op-Ed: Are Black People More Homophobic Than White People?
By Sidney Fussell Simply put, no. Black people are not “more” homophobic than white people. That’s a myth. But here I want to unpack what purpose this myth serves for the status quo and how this myth...
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Feminists We Love: Michael Kimmel (Video)
Michael Kimmel, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University, is a nationally-recognized scholar and activist committed to the study of manhood and masculinity. His...
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Say No to Homophobia: The 2014 Russian Olympics
By Zillah Eisenstein I have recently returned from St. Petersburg, where nationalist thugs assaulted gay pride demonstrators in June of this year after Putin passed a law forbidding “propaganda of...
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“Action Expresses Priorities”: The Sochi Olympics and a Culture of Complicity
The upcoming Sochi Olympics are already shrouded in violence and inequality. It is the Olympics after all, so the political, social, and cultural entanglements between the world’s largest sporting...
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On Michael Sam Coming Out
By Cheryl Cooky Take Me Out Nearly a year ago today, I was invited to deliver a lecture to the students at Wabash College (a small, all-male, liberal arts College in central Indiana) on the issue of...
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The Lorde Works in Mysterious and Magical Ways: An Introduction to TFW’s...
I write libation to all those known and unknown ancestors across lifetimes that have gone before me and upon whose shoulders I literally stand. Audre Lordecopyright Dagmar Schultz Tuesday, February 18,...
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POSTSCRIPT: a love note
By Michelle Parkerson “Don’t mythologize me.” Audre Lorde (from the documentary, “A LITANY FOR SURVIVAL”) Consider this a love note never sent, Audre, for that brief, clairvoyant moment you publicly...
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Mockeries of Separation (a poem)
. by e nina jay Audre Lordecopyright: Dagmar Schultz “we must not hide behind the mockeries of separations that have been imposed upon us and which we so often accept as our own.” ~audre lorde . ....
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On Misconceived Toxicity, Malice, and Failures
By Fakhra Hassan During the last week of February, I had the opportunity to meet Pakistani feminist activist and IT genius Sana Saleem from Bolo Bhi at the Karachi Literature Festival. Before meeting...
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TFW Interviews an Expert in the HIV Prevention Field: Dr. David Malebranche
TFW: The theme for World AIDS Day from 2011-2015, which is “Getting to Zero: Zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS related deaths,” is a forward-looking goal that some may read as...
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It’s Bigger Than Jamal Bryant…
We interrupt our summer break to bring you this article, in light of recent events within black religion and black popular culture. This is not breaking news. However, in view of the interview that I...
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Moving Images: On Queerness and Eritrean Identity
By Hel Gebreamlak Masculinity was the last thing I learned how to do. I wasn’t one of those baby dykes who literally knew in utero. I thought girls were cool, and that Xena didn’t need no man because...
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Beyond Saying Her Name
By Andrea J. Ritchie Today the African American Policy Forum, the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia University and Andrea Ritchie, Soros Justice Fellow and expert on...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: A Deeper Look: Exploring the Violent Homophobia of Jamaica
By Felicia Garcia One afternoon, I was driving to work and I had the reggae station playing on Pandora. Buju Banton’s “Boom Bye-Bye” came on. At first, I wasn’t really paying much attention to what the...
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