Culture

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 …

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 …

I have been talking about “institutional betrayal” and women and I wanted to acknowledge Dr. Jennifer Freyd who is credited with coining the phrase. “Institutional betrayal” describes how trusted institutions …

Beautiful Brazil. A country that, like many others, has a long way to go when it comes to how it treats the women and girls who are its citizens.  Women …

“History did not begin when Europe started writing about women’s rights. Across the African continent, women had long been educating, organizing, governing, protecting communities, and shaping history in ways the …

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 …

Listen to her side of this tragic story. She begins with the pastoral picture: open spaces, animals, flowers, fields. It sounds like memory softened by sunlight. Then you notice who …

  When men debate whether women deserve safety, they are not having a conversation. They are auditioning for authority over women’s boundaries. The year is 2026. Violence against women is …

“I was excluded, so this is like Jim Crow.” Jim Crow was not simply “I feel unwelcome.” Jim Crow was an entire machinery of racial domination, backed by law, violence, …