Political Action

    updated from April 19 2024 If you’re a female athlete, you owe your opportunities and career (if you have/had one) to this woman. “What we tolerate is who …

Sometimes men speak as though women are surprised when men take a strong moral position about the death of children, particularly in conversations about abortion or a mother who kills …

I went to grade school with a girl who might put you on the mind of the loveliness of Nina Simone or Victoria Santa Cruz. People were extremely cruel to …

There is something particularly sad about a woman becoming one of the world’s great symbols of female sexuality while privately struggling with an illness rooted in her reproductive health, enduring …

Every so often, a politician appears who is interesting not because you agree with everything he says, but because he appears willing to say something his own political tribe does …

We tend to imagine trauma as someone crying when they remember something terrible. Sometimes it looks nothing like that. Sometimes trauma looks like anger. Sometimes it looks like working constantly …

Risk for harm grows where care is uneven. And for Black women, care has never been evenly given. Healthcare didn’t listen. Domestic violence services do not either. Where are Black …

We were taught what women won. We weren’t always taught what women paid. We should talk more about the women who died fighting for women’s civil rights. Women did not …

They tell me that I have despised being told what to do since I was a baby. I LOVE learning. Those are two different things, and sometimes, depending on who …

For generations, women fought to move the line forward: toward safety, freedom, education, economic independence, bodily autonomy, and the right to move through the world without asking permission. But progress …