Category: Power

Featuring Bunmi: Who Benefits When Women Are Encouraged to Leave Their Sexual Boundaries Open to Revision?
Who benefits when women are encouraged to understand their sexual boun [...]

When Giving Up Women’s Rights Is Called Progress: 15 Questions Worth Asking
updated from March 23 2025There is a familiar pattern in [...]

7 Devastating Truths About What Is Happening to Women and Girls in Haiti
There are places in the world where women are screaming into a silence [...]

The Apology Is Too Cheap: Black People Deserve More Than Corporate “Sorry”
This is suicide awareness month. Black people are being found dead and [...]

Why Does Everyone Want Women to Prove Their Kindness by Becoming Less Protected?
Some people do not ask you to understand them. The [...]

If You Love Us, Why Are You Fighting for the Right to Hurt Us?
Harm does not always arrive announcing itself as hatred. Sometimes it [...]

Before Black German Feminism Had a Name, Fasia Jansen Was Already Fighting
What does political resistance look like when the movement that might [...]

Women Don’t Just Run for Office. They Run Through a Gauntlet of Expectations.
Women are often asked to demonstrate competence while simult [...]

She Was 19 When Her Boss Began Sexually Pursuing Her. Her Fight Changed the Workplace for Every Woman Who Came After.
Mechelle Vinson was nineteen when she walked into a Washington, D.C., [...]

Paulette Nardal: The Black Woman Who Helped Make Paris a Meeting Place for the Black World
Long before many people had language for what we now call 'Black f [...]