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There’s a phrase people love to say when conversations get uncomfortable: “I don’t see gender, race, sexuality, or identity. I treat everyone the same.” It sounds enlightened. It sounds fair. …

The Lie We Tell to Stay Comfortable People say: “Rape is rape, it doesn’t matter who did it.” But that has never been true in practice. A wealthy man is …

This is a tender area. Many people tense up the moment sexual violence and sexual orientation appear in the same conversation. The fear is understandable: historically, LGBTQ+ communities have endured …

No matter how you identify, if you continuously show up only to argue that women shouldn’t fight for our own health, opportunity, and safety, then the pattern speaks for itself. …

I admired her healing journey before the movie. The number of times I sat with women (the park ranger, the martial artist, the cop, the welder, the construction manager, the …

A womanist does not enter this conversation as a spectator — we enter it as those who have lived inside the body that the world debates. Long before words like …

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism. Shirley Chisholm   From the earliest movements for freedom, Black women have never …

In too many parts of the world—and even in the minds of too many people—rape inside of marriage is still not fully recognized as a crime. But here’s the truth: …

Somewhere along the way, the right of men—especially Black men—to say no got tangled up in our cultural discomfort with seeing men as fully human. When Prince said no to …

Feminism can no longer afford to live in generalizations.When it does, it leaves too much room for people to hide intent, to blur goals, to claim the word while working …