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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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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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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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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleTop 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...
View ArticleEMERGING 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...
View ArticleEMERGING 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleEMERGING 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...
View ArticleIn 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...
View Article#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...
View Article2 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...
View ArticleAn 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleTop 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...
View ArticleEMERGING 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...
View ArticleEMERGING 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...
View ArticleThe 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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