Feminists deserve to know the stories of their foremothers. That’s why one organization is building a national monument to honor the five million women who fought for the right to vote.
The Military Pilot Who Broke Barriers for Women
The first women Nancy Love recruited had a minimum 500 flight hours. Most had more—including a 35-year-old flight instructor and mother of three with 3500 hours and a 23-year-old barnstormer with 2900.
This Is V-Day20: 20 Years Since I Met Eve
I first met Eve Ensler in a bombed-out theater in Sarajevo in 1998. She was already known by many as the playwright of the groundbreaking play, The Vagina Monologues, which she had performed off-Broadway as a one-woman show.
The Ms. Q&A: Florence Schechter is Building a Vagina Museum
“When I realized there was no vagina museum, I knew it would never exist unless I made it. I wasn’t going to wait around for someone else to have the idea independently.”
I Know a Woman: Gloria Steinem’s Pathway as a Feminist Pioneer
Behind every great woman… is another great woman. Kate Hodges traces Gloria Steinem’s path to being a feminist pioneer—and the women she met along the way.
The Women The New York Times Overlooked
The New York Times has launched Overlooked, the new project in which they are publishing the obituaries of past figures disregarded by the paper and by society at large.
WATCH: The Official Trailer for RBG is Here
We just checked. She’s still notorious.
10 Forgotten Women Leaders Who Made Feminist History
Catch a glimpse of the campaign rallies of an unprecedented presidential campaign, the front lines of the Stonewall Riots and a chorus of voices singing in protest of apartheid outside a South African PM’s house—through the stories of the women who made history happen.
In Praise of Difficult Women
For a woman to have the life she wants, regardless of the times, she must always be difficult.
Bygone Badass Broads: 8 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World
Meet the suffragette who did jujitsu, the woman warriors who wore lipstick into battle and the queen who put women in their rightful places—positions of power.
