Female Civil Rights

Stalking can be difficult to explain because any single incident may look small when separated from everything around it. A car passes your house. Someone sends flowers. Your ex appears …

We can defend someone’s right to wear the dress without pretending the dress is what makes a woman. There is a very simple place where many of us can meet. …

There are places in the world where women are screaming into a silence that should shame the rest of us. Haiti is one of them. Haiti is living through an extraordinary …

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 …

Some people do not ask you to understand them. They ask you to stop understanding yourself. Women have historically been asked to perform enormous amounts of kindness: caregiving, smoothing conflict, …

Women did not create boundaries because every man is dangerous. Women created boundaries because they cannot know in advance which man is. Violent men don’t walk around with id tags …

Remember those standardized tests where you practically got a few points just for following directions? Write your name in the correct box. Fill in the bubble completely. Use a No. …

We’ve been conditioned to treat “no” like a legal defense—a deposition that requires a boyfriend, an excuse, or a calendar conflict to be valid. It’s time to flip the script. …

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 …