Category: Herstory/History
Male Access Supremacy: When Entitlement Disguises Itself as Equality
updated from July 31, 2025The Space Was Ne [...]
From Sisters of Yesterday: 20 Dating Rules Black Women Followed in the 1970s That Are Gone Now
Sometimes, it helps to get to know the women and unwritten rules that [...]
6 Life-Changing Ways Sports Build Courage in Women and Girls
For a short season, my home state had a WNBA team, and I got to go and [...]
Women Built These Spaces: 20 Historical Reasons Single-Sex Spaces Exist
Women have historically organized around power differently. Again and [...]
12 Things Women Have Always Been Told Don’t MatterâBut Actually Matter Deeply
We talk about domestic and sexual violence with so much more ease now- [...]
Ida B. Wells Was One of America’s Earliest Anti-Sexual-Violence Advocates. It’s Time We Said So.
One of the reasons I started this blog in the early 2000s was because [...]
Before “Domestic Violence”: The History of How Women Finally Named Abuse
For generations, women endured violence that society treated as a priv [...]
A Woman-Centered Truth About FGM We Cannot Abandon (w/list of resource organizations)
updated from December 13, 2025
FGM victimsâ fury as academics com [...]
What Strom Thurmond’s Hidden Daughter Teaches Women About Care
If you're Gen X, you probably grew up hearing the name Strom Thurmond [...]
No Test Can Measure What Women Have Been Enduring
If the public tantrums around males being tested could stop, that woul [...]