Women

Years ago, I interviewed for a position with a statewide sexual violence coalition. I had earned my bachelor’s degree (Organizational Management and Development) from a Christian university not far from …

Every so often, somebody starts a conversation about women changing their last names when they marry. And before long, people are making judgments about women abandoning their history, rejecting their …

Inspired by MJ Murphy’s question: “If women are not a biological category, what exactly are women’s rights based on?” The bigger the proposed change, the more questions people should be …

I’ll tell you this. What I admire about J.K. Rowling is that, no matter how often people threaten or slur her, she won’t back down. No matter how much wealth …

There is something deeply troubling about watching a documentary about murdered women and realizing how many of the dangers they faced extend far beyond the places where they worked.  Oxygen’s …

updated from February 8,  2024 When Did Women Lose the Right to Name Ourselves? Female erasure is hardly a new concept. For generations, societies have treated the birth of a …

How we slowly surrender our boundaries, judgment, and needs, and what it means to begin returning to ourselves. There is something about Nina Simone singing I Wish I Knew How …

12 ways women are pressured, persuaded, and sometimes punished for refusing to organize their lives around men. Women are human beings in our own right. Yet across cultures, religions, families, …

🖤 1. Demanding Grace While Denying Ours Black women are often expected to extend endless empathy, understanding, and forgiveness—especially to Black men navigating racism, trauma, or systemic stress. But when …

When you are a woman—an adult female human being who has overlapping disabilities that all intersect with being a woman—it gets extremely challenging to keep hearing your existence trivialized. I’m …