Category: Herstory/History
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 victims’ 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 [...]
How a Network of Black Women Educators Secretly Organized a Revolution
Who Were the Women of the WPC?
Founded in Montgomery in 1946 by Mary [...]
Why Dismissing Boundaries Around the “N-Word” is a Form of Cultural Gaslighting
Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers' sons, becomes as import [...]
Survivor Mary Lumpkin: The Woman Who Turned a Place of Pain Into a Place of Promise
Before history knew her as a symbol, Mary Lumpkin was a w [...]
The World Has Studied Women’s Reactions More Than Men’s Actions
The people carrying the pain and the burdens are often the people le [...]
Consent Is Freedom: A Woman’s Right to Belong to Herself
Affirmation:
My body belongs to me. My voice matters. My boun [...]