Political Action

For a short season, my home state had a WNBA team, and I got to go and see a few games up close with my siblings. I was in my …

Women have historically organized around power differently. Again and again, women have sought power to create refuge rather than conquest, safety rather than supremacy, opportunity rather than control. This is …

You have chosen to lie  for a man you respect.   I have chosen to tell the truth  for all the women I’ve never met.   ~Aja the Poet updated …

updated from December 13, 2025 FGM victims’ fury as academics compare practice to cosmetic surgery Any honest critique of global efforts to address female genital mutilation must begin here: Girls’ …

Who Were the Women of the WPC? Founded in Montgomery in 1946 by Mary Fair Burks, an English professor at the historically Black Alabama State College (now Alabama State University), …

  The most dangerous thing adults can do to a child is not always hurting them directly. Sometimes it is failing to see them clearly. Sometimes it is hearing their …

Fine. I will do it myself. -Black women’s proverb Black women despise the necessity of having to fight, but …elite fighters we have been and elite fighters we will be. …

For generations, women have been told they were imagining “it.” You can fill in the blank for millions of untold “it” things. “If you speak up, you’re difficult.” “If you …

A woman’s body is not simply a smaller version of a man’s body. We are not nonmen with bonus accessories. We are a distinct sex class. They despise females from …