Women’s Rights

Some people judge Black women as if influence comes with a lifetime warranty on another person’s integrity… This is not a defense of Oprah specifically, but there’s a pattern here …

Can human rights organizations protect multiple groups without asking women and girls to disappear? It truly bothered me that Amnesty took aim at a woman’s shelter and services that were …

Who Were the Women of the WPC? Founded in Montgomery in 1946 by Mary Fair Burks, an English professor at the historically Black Alabama State College (now Alabama State University), …

I deeply despise stories that depict women finding their way through to the other side of sex work or a season of promiscuity as being synonymous with change for the …

The people carrying the pain and the burdens are often the people least heard Those with the most protection do not get to dictate the survival choices of those who …

Affirmation: My body belongs to me. My voice matters. My boundaries are worthy of respect. I do not have to surrender my comfort, safety, or dignity to make someone else …

For generations, women have been told they were imagining “it.” You can fill in the blank for millions of untold “it” things. “If you speak up, you’re difficult.” “If you …

A woman’s body is not simply a smaller version of a man’s body. We are not nonmen with bonus accessories. We are a distinct sex class. They despise females from …

We have got to stop treating the violent crossing of human boundaries as a ‘lapse in judgment.’ You don’t accidentally break into a woman’s peace; some choose to dominate it. …