Civil Rights & Social Justice

Women have been finding one another and making a way for a very long time. We are not beginning. We are continuing…. A particular feeling comes over me when history …

Women learned through history that being somewhere inside the word ‘everyone’ is not the same as being named, counted, or protected Some women feel a particular uneasiness when language about …

    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 …

Sometimes men speak as though women are surprised when men take a strong moral position about the death of children, particularly in conversations about abortion or a mother who kills …

Frequency tells us how often harm happens. It does not tell us how much harm we should be willing to accept. I have finally found the words for something I …

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 went to grade school with a girl who might put you on the mind of the loveliness of Nina Simone or Victoria Santa Cruz. People were extremely cruel to …

We are nowhere close to being able to collapsing women’s issues into total invisibility……Maybe in thousands of years or something, but not now. Sometime AFTER people learn to listen to …

A movement does not become more compassionate by asking the vulnerable to become invisible. True justice makes more room without removing the people who were already standing there.   Who …

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 …