Herstory/History

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. …

 Harm does not always arrive announcing itself as hatred. Sometimes it comes smiling, agreeing with 80 percent of what you say, and spending the remaining 20 percent figuring out exactly …

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 …

  Women are often asked to demonstrate competence while simultaneously reassuring everyone that their competence has not made them less pleasant. Just a reminder…….             …

  Where did people get this bizarre idea that solidarity doesn’t require respect and reciprocity…at a minimum? If you are able, you definitely want to avoid allowing people to recruit …

Mechelle Vinson was nineteen when she walked into a Washington, D.C., savings bank and began working as a teller-trainee in 1974. She worked hard, learned the business and rose through …

I do not have to dismiss myself simply because someone else does. There is a dangerous distance between “we don’t know” and “there is nothing there.” Women often meet that …

  There are many ways to hide violence. A locked door will do it. So will money, shame, family loyalty, professional prestige, religious authority, fear and a community determined not …

updated from March 24 2025   Interesting fact: Before his murders were discovered, serial killer Ted Bundy volunteered at a suicide crisis hotline in Seattle called the Seattle Crisis Clinic in 1971. The …

Her name was Jeanne Nardal. Most people came to know her as Jane. She was born in Martinique on August 1, 1902, one of seven daughters in the remarkable Nardal …