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Ms. Muse: What Happens When You Give a Girl a Pen

PUBLISHED 11/29/2018 by Chivas Sandage

This is what can happen when you ask a girl to tell a story.

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Solidarity with Black Women Journalists Beyond the Briefing Room

PUBLISHED 11/28/2018 by Ava Thompson Greenwell

Trump’s targeting of black women journalists is troubling, but not surprising. Based on research I conducted, insults like the ones he hurled at three black women journalists in two days this month come regularly from white men within newsrooms.

Women of Color in Washington are Getting to Work—and Facing Down Their Detractors

PUBLISHED 11/26/2018 by Pat Mitchell

After the midterm election was won by women of color, with so many historic “firsts” being made in the process, our president was not in a good mood, especially when it came to journalists who happened also to be women of color trying to do their jobs.

Thelma, Louise and #MeToo

PUBLISHED 11/21/2018 by Melissa Stephenson

I’m fed up with the Midwestern grin-and-bear-it notion of strength I was raised on, stoicism tempered with niceness. On the plane, the ending of Thelma & Louise made the 40-something me cry because I have driven off too many cliffs in this lifetime already.

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Black Feminist in Public: Tamura Lomax on Discourse, Power and the Misreading of Jezebel

PUBLISHED 11/20/2018 by Janell Hobson

“The individual is significant. I think that’s how we get to the discourse in the first place. But now it’s time to move into the systemic, the institutional, the structural.”

Are You Ready for the Feminine Revolution?

PUBLISHED 11/9/2018 by Lisa Niver

It’s true: I have always been enthusiastic and had more obvious feelings than others in a room. That’s why I loved reading “The Feminine Revolution” by Catherine Connors and Amy Stanton, which encouraged women like me to reframe old standards that have claimed that “traditional” feminine traits are weak or bad.

We Heart: The Podcast Telling the Stories of “Cool Dead Women”

PUBLISHED 11/9/2018 by Blair Waters and Erika J. Waters

It’s important to know our “foremothers,” as Virginia Woolf advised us. Today, we all know her name. But what about Leonie von Zesch, a dog-sledding Alaskan dentist who cleaned cavities with hairpins? What about Alice Ball, the African American woman who discovered a cure for leprosy in Hawaii when she was only 24—only to have her Ivy-League professor steal the credit?

The Anatomy of Silence: Examining What Gets in the Way of Talking About Sexual Violence

PUBLISHED 11/7/2018 by Cyra Perry Dougherty

I said #MeToo—but I was scared that it wouldn’t make a damn bit of difference. That fear was what led me to compile “The Anatomy of Silence,” an anthology of non-fiction and creative narratives about the silence that surrounds sexual violence.

Rest in Power: For Ntozake Shange, Who Moved Us to the Ends of Our Own Rainbows

PUBLISHED 11/5/2018 by Janell Hobson

Shange’s potent words remain eternal. May her spirit, which she once described as “too ancient to understand the separation of soul and gender,” rest in peace and power. May the artistic tools she left behind for so many of us continue to cement her legacy and “move us to the ends of our own rainbows.”

The Ms. Q&A: Feminist Poet Natasha Trethewey Writes the Stories We Need to Remember

PUBLISHED 11/5/2018 by Carmen Rios

Natasha Trethewey has published four books of poetry exploring race and gender through history, won the Pulitzer Prize and served two terms as the national Poet Laureate—and her forthcoming collection Monument proves that she still has much left to say.

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