By Tanwi Nandini Islam Feminism is the hustle to survive in a world that does not care about you. The latest Internet satire tells us...
By Candy Taaffe August 9, 2009 Finally official. . The love and mutual respect is what inspires the truth, ………….and the desire ………….to make happen...
By Anamaría Flores In a white male supremacist heteronormative puritanical judeo-christian culture such as the one that characterizes the united states, the most revolutionary act...
Layli Maparyan is the Katherine Stone Kaufmann ’67 Executive Director of The Wellesley Centers for Women, one of the nation’s leading organizations committed to research and...
By Kuukua Yomekpe Two years into living in the U.S. a carload of Anglo American boys tried to run my two younger sisters and me over...
By Mohadesa Najumi Since finishing NetFlix’s hit new series “Orange Is the New Black” about a 32-year old white woman named Piper Chapman, who serves 15 months...
Nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary in 2010, U People is a music video, a documentary LGBT film, and a...
By Kaitlyn Greenidge We the only girls who leave our walk. We the only girls that travel. All the other girls on our walk,...
By Debra Guckenheimer Gender and racial inequality are intertwined in ways the Trayvon Martin case highlighted. Historically, the safety of White women has been used...
By Kelly Macías Like many other Americans, over the last three weeks I was firmly gripped by the George Zimmerman trial. I watched with anxiety...
By Layla Kristy Feghali “i have been locked by the lawless. Handcuffed by the haters. Gagged by the greedy. And, if i know anything at...
By Eren Cervantes-Altamirano I knew I was a feminist when I was in the third grade. Then, I was an aspiring class president in a classroom...
By Rashna Batliwala Singh “Are you listening?” Rachel Jeantel asked defense attorney Don West in the trial of George Zimmerman, as he seemed to turn and...
Although best known for her advocacy for gender equality and reproductive justice, for the last decade, Sandra Fluke has devoted her career to public interest...
(Photo by Blaire Russell) Every morning this week I have woken up to my email inbox and social media feed filled with inspiring stories and...
By Chris Crass For all of us who are men who believe in social justice, who want healthy and beautiful lives for our loved ones,...
By Josh Shahryar For the past several months, I’ve been bombarded by questions about what I think of Femen’s work in Tunisia. This happened after...
By Zainab Khan Just last week, I graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. A few weeks before graduation, my best friend (the only other hijabi...