Category: Abuse of Power

Ida B. Wells Was One of America’s Earliest Anti-Sexual-Violence Advocates. It’s Time We Said So.
One of the reasons I started this blog in the early 2000s was because [...]

🚨 The Women Who Climbed the Ladder Are Now Pulling It Up Behind Them
Truth does not become false because it becomes unpopular. And the trut [...]

12 Ways That We Rob Women—Then Judge Their Survival
It is a contradiction to restrict women's opportunities, safety, or au [...]

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 th [...]

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 [...]

Women Healing Among One Another is Not Hate (audio short)
Can human rights organizations protect multiple groups without asking [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Why Dismissing Boundaries Around the “N-Word” is a Form of Cultural Gaslighting
Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers' sons, becomes as import [...]

Georgia Gilmore: How Black Women Outsmarted Jim Crow with Fish Frys
Fine. I will do it myself. -Black women's proverb
Black women despise [...]