Tonya GJ Prince

Fall is coming. Here are some film suggestions for when the weather keeps you indoors. Most of us learned something about controlling a story long before we knew there was …

updated from June 3 2025 Let’s name this for what it is: When politicians, media figures, or public influencers call women “hateful” for expressing concerns about our safety, they are …

Women have spent generations being told to sit back and relax while somebody else decided where the road was going. Some of us like to see the map.  Of course …

Some women are granted complexity after tragedy. Others are handed a number, a sentence, and a locked door Something haunting about the story of Deasia Watkins has very little to …

A door can be legally open while everyone inside is still trying to make you leave. Something about the story of Levittown refuses to stay in 1957. William and Daisy …

There are women whose names become monuments, and there are women whose work becomes the floor somebody else gets to stand on. Black Canadian women have been both. They came …

Submission is not always announced by the word “submit.” Sometimes submission arrives dressed in the moral vocabulary of its era. Yesterday it might have been obey your husband. Today it might …

There is a dangerous mistake societies make about women. They mistake endurance for endlessness. A woman survives something on Monday, gets up on Tuesday, feeds somebody, goes to work, tends …

In the real world, on this planet we live on, the female-sexed body may have to navigate menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, sexual vulnerability, intimate medical care, privately undressing, religious practice …

  updated from April 8 2025 Some lies don’t look like lies.They wear the clothing of “tradition,” “culture,” “love,” or “femininity.”But if you look closer, you’ll see the bruises they …