Category: Herstory/History

We Celebrated Women’s Gains. We Also Need to Talk About What Was Being Eroded.
We Celebrated Women’s Gains. We Also Need to Talk About What Is Being [...]

Misogynist Gaslighting: The Reversal That Keeps Women Unsafe
Updated from June 8, 2025
No matter the group of men who disregard [...]

They Made Her Wear Trousers. Then Mattie Crawford Refused (audio ep)
What happens when somebody else has the institutional power to decide [...]

Male Access Supremacy: When Entitlement Disguises Itself as Equality
updated from July 31, 2025The Space Was Ne [...]

Before You Put Up the House: What Mattie Michael Taught Us About the Way Women Love
Retracing Mattie Michael’s Footsteps: Sometimes We Have to Ask Why We [...]

She Deserved Help: What Kitty Genovese’s Story Still Teaches Us About Silence, Judgment, and the Cost of Looking Away
updated from May 1 2025
UPDATE: I Learned More About Kitty Geno [...]

The Apology Is Too Cheap: Black People Deserve More Than Corporate “Sorry”
This is suicide awareness month. Black people are being found dead and [...]

Some of the Doors Women Walk Through Today Were Built by Women Who Needed Them First
Try not to measure an older woman’s courage by doors that had not been [...]

Why Does Everyone Want Women to Prove Their Kindness by Becoming Less Protected?
Some people do not ask you to understand them. The [...]

Watch The Joy Luck Club Again: 10 Things Women May See Differently Now…….
Some of us fell in love with The Joy Luck Club before we ever saw the [...]