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Gender Taxes: American Women Are $1.5 Million Poorer By Age 65

By Joseph de la Torre Dwyer Every single working day of the year, American women pay a 22.6 percent gender tax on their income.  By gender tax, I mean a negative transfer imposed upon women’s wages...

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In Our Solitude

By Tanwi Nandini Islam Let’s begin with a riddle: What’s something that exhausts itself, yet never disappears? A few answers: Self. Others. Identity. Love. I’m channeling the Sphinx, posing a riddle to...

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#BlameFeminism: For the Hurt & the Hustle

By Tanwi Nandini Islam Feminism is the hustle to survive in a world that does not care about you. The latest Internet satire tells us to #blamefeminism for everything from dying houseplants to paper...

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2 poems by Geffrey Davis

Unfledged   What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices? — Robert Hayden     Weekends too my father roofed poor neighborhoods, at prices only his back could carry   into...

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An Alert: Capital is Intersectional; Radicalizing Piketty’s Inequality

By Zillah Eisenstein When civil rights activists speak about race they are told they need to think about class as well. When anti-racist feminists focus on the problems of gendered racism they are also...

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The Missing “P” in U.S. Anti-Trafficking Law

By Jennifer Suchland The three Ps of legislation and advocacy in anti-trafficking discourse are Prevention, Prosecution, and Protection. The “three Ps” emerged at the end of the Cold War, when sex...

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Top 15 Things TFW Accomplished in 2015

Happy New Year! We are raising a glass to you — and to us. Because of your dedicated support, TFW continues to be a critical light in feminist media publishing, effecting change by telling the other...

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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Capital-P-Productivity

By Laura Honsig “Capital-P-Productivity” is what a friend of mine called it once. For a long time I’ve been trying to put words to an experience I have had again and again, and this phrase comes pretty...

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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Paying in Order to Perform Labor

By Kylie Nicole Gemmell   Fairhaven College Main Building During my last quarter as an undergrad, I had the opportunity to create, facilitate, and teach my own course. This opportunity was presented as...

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The Many Ways to STRIKE on March 8: Rise, Resist, Organize, Dance, Dialogue,...

By Zillah Eisenstein The International Women’s Strike/US on March 8, 2017 hopes to be a catalyst for the liberation of all women, cis and trans—of every color, sex, gender, class, nation, and...

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EMERGING FEMINISMS, My Journey Within The Social Development Sector: Musings,...

By Arpita Das   Photo Credit: Alankaar Sharma.   I find myself increasingly disillusioned with the development sector, even though it has been my professional home for nearly sixteen years. I may sound...

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In Our Solitude

By Tanwi Nandini Islam Let’s begin with a riddle: What’s something that exhausts itself, yet never disappears? A few answers: Self. Others. Identity. Love. I’m channeling the Sphinx, posing a riddle to...

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#BlameFeminism: For the Hurt & the Hustle

By Tanwi Nandini Islam Feminism is the hustle to survive in a world that does not care about you. The latest Internet satire tells us to #blamefeminism for everything from dying houseplants to paper...

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2 poems by Geffrey Davis

Unfledged   What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices? — Robert Hayden     Weekends too my father roofed poor neighborhoods, at prices only his back could carry   into...

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An Alert: Capital is Intersectional; Radicalizing Piketty’s Inequality

By Zillah Eisenstein When civil rights activists speak about race they are told they need to think about class as well. When anti-racist feminists focus on the problems of gendered racism they are also...

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The Missing “P” in U.S. Anti-Trafficking Law

By Jennifer Suchland The three Ps of legislation and advocacy in anti-trafficking discourse are Prevention, Prosecution, and Protection. The “three Ps” emerged at the end of the Cold War, when sex...

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Top 15 Things TFW Accomplished in 2015

Happy New Year! We are raising a glass to you — and to us. Because of your dedicated support, TFW continues to be a critical light in feminist media publishing, effecting change by telling the other...

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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Capital-P-Productivity

By Laura Honsig “Capital-P-Productivity” is what a friend of mine called it once. For a long time I’ve been trying to put words to an experience I have had again and again, and this phrase comes pretty...

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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Paying in Order to Perform Labor

By Kylie Nicole Gemmell   Fairhaven College Main Building During my last quarter as an undergrad, I had the opportunity to create, facilitate, and teach my own course. This opportunity was presented as...

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The Many Ways to STRIKE on March 8: Rise, Resist, Organize, Dance, Dialogue,...

By Zillah Eisenstein The International Women’s Strike/US on March 8, 2017 hopes to be a catalyst for the liberation of all women, cis and trans—of every color, sex, gender, class, nation, and...

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