Truth does not become false because it becomes unpopular. And the truth is, as proud as we are of some of these women for how they climbed the ladder. The …
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12 Ways That We Rob Women—Then Judge Their Survival
It is a contradiction to restrict women’s opportunities, safety, or autonomy and then criticize the ways women adapt. If we want different outcomes, we must examine the conditions we as …
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Why We Test: The Hidden History of Fairness in Sports—and in Women’s Lives
Panic. You can always tell when men are being asked to do something that women have always been expected to do. Did you know? All female athletes at the Olympic …
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5 Red Flags That Technology Meant to Protect Us Can Become a Tool of Control: What Women Need to Know About Surveillance and Safety
Who isn’t surveilling women these days? There have been documented cases where law enforcement officers allegedly misused Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) systems to monitor romantic partners, ex-partners, …
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Women Healing Among One Another is Not Hate (audio short)
Can human rights organizations protect multiple groups without asking women and girls to disappear? It truly bothered me that Amnesty took aim at a woman’s shelter and services that were …
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How a Network of Black Women Educators Secretly Organized a Revolution
Who Were the Women of the WPC? Founded in Montgomery in 1946 by Mary Fair Burks, an English professor at the historically Black Alabama State College (now Alabama State University), …
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10 Lessons “The Hate U Give” Teaches Us About Seeing, Hearing, and Protecting Girls
The most dangerous thing adults can do to a child is not always hurting them directly. Sometimes it is failing to see them clearly. Sometimes it is hearing their …
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Why Dismissing Boundaries Around the “N-Word” is a Form of Cultural Gaslighting
Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers’ sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother’s son, we who believe in …
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Georgia Gilmore: How Black Women Outsmarted Jim Crow with Fish Frys
Fine. I will do it myself. -Black women’s proverb Black women despise the necessity of having to fight, but …elite fighters we have been and elite fighters we will be. …
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Survivor Mary Lumpkin: The Woman Who Turned a Place of Pain Into a Place of Promise
Before history knew her as a symbol, Mary Lumpkin was a woman. She was a mother. A Survivor. A person whose life carried both unimaginable hardship and extraordinary strength. Mary Lumpkin …