Womanism/Feminism

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 …

Some women are granted complexity after tragedy. Others are handed a number, a sentence, and a locked door Something haunting about the story of Deasia Watkins has very little to …

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 …

In the real world, on this planet we live on, the female-sexed body may have to navigate menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, sexual vulnerability, intimate medical care, privately undressing, religious practice …

  updated from April 8 2025 Some lies don’t look like lies.They wear the clothing of “tradition,” “culture,” “love,” or “femininity.”But if you look closer, you’ll see the bruises they …

originally published in 2025 There is a dangerous lie being whispered and shouted in this world:That a woman is a feeling.That our existence—our lives, our flesh, our blood, our history—is …

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 …