Advocates/Activists

Try not to measure an older woman’s courage by doors that had not been built yet. In 1968, *Lorraine is twenty-five years old with two little children and a husband …

Can you imagine being pressured to center males in work for women and girls in a world where there is still girl-child marriage? Little girls can’t identify out of that. …

What does political resistance look like when the movement that might have named your experience does not yet exist? What happens when you live a political identity before there is …

updated from March 24 2025   Interesting fact: Before his murders were discovered, serial killer Ted Bundy volunteered at a suicide crisis hotline in Seattle called the Seattle Crisis Clinic in 1971. The …

Long before many people had language for what we now call ‘Black feminism’, a Black woman from Martinique was sitting in France thinking about Black women, race, culture, belonging and …

  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 …

If we can take our eyes off the individual women long enough to study the system around her. We might finally see who has been moving the walls. I don’t …

    updated from April 19 2024 If you’re a female athlete, you owe your opportunities and career (if you have/had one) to this woman. “What we tolerate is who …

I do not owe anyone a smaller truth so they can maintain a larger lie. Absolutely no woman deserves to be harmed because she spoke a truth somebody did not …

I will help build a culture where doing good is interesting again. There were so many morally bankrupt and inhumane comments about Jason Arday on social media. One of them …