Deeming some hairstyles professional or acceptable while others—such as locks are not—is just one way that those in power deem who gets hired, who gets promoted, and who is allowed to experience the freedom to simply be and dress and exist as they naturally are.
Category: Voices
Sexual Harassment Led to My Eating Disorder
While there are a number of risk factors for eating disorders, including our culture’s obsession with thinness, one factor is talked about less often and that is sexual violence.
We Help Child Sex Abuse Survivors Break Their Silence When We Show Them Support
As a 12-year-old victim of sexual abuse, I needed more than just access. I also needed the support of my community, my friends and my family.
Sappho’s Series of Lesbian Poets: Mary Meriam’s Gorgeous Rage
Coming out doesn’t make you at home in the world; nor, certainly, does sex. You need bonds beyond sex: a community, a culture, a shared set of obsessions. “Love on the March,” Alex Ross, The New Yorker 11/12/12 When I was a young lesbian in rural New Jersey in the ‘70s, I was completely lost […]
Five Myths about Women’s History Month
With this year’s celebration of Women’s History Month aligning with the anniversary of suffrage, we wanted to point out some of the recurrent myths about women’s history we come across as historians.
Celebrating Through Crisis: Three Activists Across Generations on What Women’s History Month Means to Them
We spoke with three activists for women’s equality and social justice and asked them each one question: What does Women’s History Month mean to you?
The Ms. Q&A: Comedian Liz Miele’s Stance on Cancel Culture, Feminism and Comedy
“Just because you don’t know what feminism means doesn’t mean you’re not a feminist. You have an education. You can leave the house without permission and get whatever job you want. You didn’t have that before. Feminism is about women demanding to have equal rights with men. That’s it!”
“Innocent People Are Going to Die”: The Price of Presidential Narcissism and the Path of Peaceful Resistance
Just two and a half years ago, the night of the 2016 Presidential election, I stood under the largest glass ceiling in the world in New York’s Jacob Javits Center, anxiously awaiting the arrival of our country’s first female president. Standing no more than fifty feet from the podium, I watched the big screen hovering […]
COVID-19: A Black, Queer, Feminist Grounding and Call for Self and Community Care
“I believe in us. I believe in you. I believe in myself. While, I don’t know how, and I don’t know when; I know—just like my ancestors knew—that we will find a way through: as long as we remember who we are and what we are capable of.”
Picking Meat From Tiny Bones: Coping with Coronavirus, Isolation and Aging Parents
“Facing quarantines and the very real possibility of carrying a novel virus along with me, it’s no longer a question of if or when I will go to see to my parents, but why? Why risk exposing them and a street full of elderly adults like themselves to something they probably won’t survive?”