Women’s Rights

Mechelle Vinson was nineteen when she walked into a Washington, D.C., savings bank and began working as a teller-trainee in 1974. She worked hard, learned the business and rose through …

I do not have to dismiss myself simply because someone else does. There is a dangerous distance between “we don’t know” and “there is nothing there.” Women often meet that …

We’ve been conditioned to treat “no” like a legal defense. We feel the need to back it up with a deposition: “I’m busy,” “I have a boyfriend,” “Maybe next time.” …

  There are many ways to hide violence. A locked door will do it. So will money, shame, family loyalty, professional prestige, religious authority, fear and a community determined not …

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 …

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 …