Political Action

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…….             …

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 …

Long before many people had language for what we now call ‘Black feminism’, a Black woman from Martinique was sitting in France thinking about Black women, race, culture, belonging and …

Women have spent generations being told to sit back and relax while somebody else decided where the road was going. Some of us like to see the map.  Of course …

A door can be legally open while everyone inside is still trying to make you leave. Something about the story of Levittown refuses to stay in 1957. William and Daisy …

There are women whose names become monuments, and there are women whose work becomes the floor somebody else gets to stand on. Black Canadian women have been both. They came …

There is a dangerous mistake societies make about women. They mistake endurance for endlessness. A woman survives something on Monday, gets up on Tuesday, feeds somebody, goes to work, tends …

Sometimes history gives us a woman whose life makes the word courage feel too small. María Elena Moyano was born in Lima, Peru, in 1958. She would become an Afro-Peruvian …

If we can take our eyes off the individual women long enough to study the system around her. We might finally see who has been moving the walls. I don’t …