Why won’t they say our names? In an era when nearly every issue has a spokesperson, why do so many women and girls feel unheard when it comes to their …
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The Standard Was Always Male. For the Girls, It’s Time We Said That Out Loud.
Either non-verifiable gender ID reigns, and men are advantaged (AGAIN) while women are displaced(AGAIN), or verifiable sex reigns, and women’s sports can exist. Hmm which is fair? Laura Wiley Haynes …
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The Blurry Woman: How Society “Forgets” the Definition the Moment We Ask for Rights
When she is a target for control or harm. Forced Sterilization (The Global Eugenics Playbook): From the targeted sterilization of Indigenous women in Peru and Canada to marginalized women in …
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Friendly Fire: Why Are Women Funding Their Own Erasure?
Tell me who I have to be to gain some reciprocity…. Ms. Lauryn Hill As kids, we used to complain about the guy who pulled our braids. The beads fell …
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The Murder of Sakia Gunn: Why the World Looked Away, and Why Her Community Refused to Forget
It was just past midnight on a Sunday in May 2003 when fifteen-year-old Sakia Gunn stood at a Newark bus corner, laughing with her friends. She was coming back from …
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This Is No Time for a Victory Lap: 35 Modern Dangers Women Are Still Being Pushed to Tolerate
Remember that race where the person winning started celebrating ….but forgot to officially cross the finish line and win the race? And then the person in second place came …
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You Cannot Punish Women for Protecting Themselves from Male Violence Against Women
You cannot name male violence as a danger for one group and then punish another group for protecting themselves from the same danger. That is not justice. That is hierarchy …
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Stop the Ahistorical Comparison: Jim Crow Was Violent, Girls’ Sports Does Not Have To Be
updated from March 28, 2025 This is so cruel. There’s a new talking point going around:That not allowing boys to compete against girls in sports is somehow the same as …
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Jim Crow Was About Stripping Boundaries-Not Setting Them
Someone is telling on themselves……. In Jim Crow America, Black people—especially Black women and girls—were forbidden from having boundaries: A Black woman couldn’t say no to a white man’s advances …
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📢 Hidden Herstory: The Leesburg Stockade Girls
In the heat of July 1963, a group of Black girls in Americus, Georgia—aged just 12 to 15—were arrested for marching peacefully against segregation at a whites-only movie theater. Their …