7 Black Canadian Women Who Fought for Women’s Rights and Changed History
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…
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…
There is a dangerous mistake societies make about women. They mistake endurance for endlessness. A woman survives something on Monday, gets up on Tuesday, feeds somebody, goes to work, tends…
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.”…
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 June 7 2025 Why It’s Wrong—And Sometimes Criminal—for Men to Overrule a Woman’s “No” In every corner of society—online and offline—there’s a dangerous pattern we must name: Men…
Every so often, a politician appears who is interesting not because you agree with everything he says, but because he appears willing to say something his own political tribe does…
The Quiet Zone authored by Petal Kimberly Samuel There is a kind of quiet that feels like freedom. The house after everyone has gone to sleep. Sitting in the car…
updated from June 7, 2025 There’s a quiet lie that echoes through many women’s lives.A lie whispered in silence. Repeated in prayer. Spoken with eyes closed tight. It goes something…
For generations, women fought to move the line forward: toward safety, freedom, education, economic independence, bodily autonomy, and the right to move through the world without asking permission. But progress…