Civil Rights & Social Justice

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 …

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 …

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 …

  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 …

When violence against women becomes visible as a pattern, men who possess some socially valued characteristic have repeatedly had an avenue for saying, in effect, “You cannot mean men like me.” …

originally published in 2025 There is a dangerous lie being whispered and shouted in this world:That a woman is a feeling.That our existence—our lives, our flesh, our blood, our history—is …

Sometimes history gives us a woman whose life makes the word courage feel too small. María Elena Moyano was born in Lima, Peru, in 1958. She would become an Afro-Peruvian …