Womanism/Feminism

 Harm does not always arrive announcing itself as hatred. Sometimes it comes smiling, agreeing with 80 percent of what you say, and spending the remaining 20 percent figuring out exactly …

I thought I knew Sylvia Plath. I swear I did. I mean how you “know” a person you study. I liked her work, and time and again I answered college-level …

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 …

Someone on X.com said these wise words: One of patriarchy’s hidden rules is that men have a right to feel good about themselves. The golden rule for women is that …

Human dignity doesn’t require pretending our characteristics don’t exist.  What is reductionism? Imagine you have a best friend named Maya. Maya loves drawing, hates peas, tells funny jokes, runs really …

  Where did people get this bizarre idea that solidarity doesn’t require respect and reciprocity…at a minimum? If you are able, you definitely want to avoid allowing people to recruit …

updated from March 24 2025   Interesting fact: Before his murders were discovered, serial killer Ted Bundy volunteered at a suicide crisis hotline in Seattle called the Seattle Crisis Clinic in 1971. The …

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 …

Fall is coming. Here are some film suggestions for when the weather keeps you indoors. Most of us learned something about controlling a story long before we knew there was …

updated from June 3 2025 Let’s name this for what it is: When politicians, media figures, or public influencers call women “hateful” for expressing concerns about our safety, they are …