Black women, a formidable voting block with one of the largest voter turnouts in the 2018 general election, are poised to take a seat at the table and set the agenda.
Tag: Black Women
Q&A: Luchina Fisher on Her Trans Inclusive Documentary, Parenting and LGBTQ Allyship
In this Q&A, Luchina Fisher discusses her upcoming documentary titled Mama Gloria, which follows the story of Chicago’s Black transgender icon Gloria Allen.
In the interview, she also talks about the importance of parents being allies to their LGBTQ children, especially within the Black community.
Black Girl Politics: Creating Space Where Black Girls’ Voices and Policy Priorities Matter
“People often assume what is best for Black girls without directly asking us for our own input on the topic.”
We REIGN Inc’s summer advocacy program is creating a space where Black girls’ voices and policy priorities matter.
Politicizing Blackness, Multiracial Love and Identity: “What We Make of This Moment Is on Us”
Kamala Harris’s intersectionality—as a woman of mixed race and culture, in a mixed-raced, blended married—signals something important to us today: That Black people are a growing part of a larger community; interconnected to broader cultures, religions and ideas that will shape this country for generations to come.
Mothers of Victims of Police Don’t Want Your Pity. They Want Solidarity—and Justice.
Mothers of police violence are not merely biological extensions of their children, who exist only to nurture them through life and cry and grieve through their child’s pain. They are revolutionaries.
By integrating the work of grief, nurture and care with their ongoing fight for justice, these women are the kinds of activists we need to have leading the way.
Black Women to Democrats: Defend Our Rights!
“Democrats who supported the Hyde Amendment and have repeatedly traded Black women’s rights for political expediency need to listen to us now.”
Women’s Representation Roundup: Ginsburg’s Impact on the 2020 Election
Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: Ruth Bader Ginsburg becomes the first woman to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol; the impact of Justice Ginsburg’s death on the 2020 election; best practices to getting more women into judicial offices; the Solomon Islands’s systemic strategies to advance gender balance in government; appallingly few women have speaking roles at the UN this month; a staggering number of Black women running for office; tracking investments of leading foundations in minority and women-owned firms; building a gender-sensitive workplace culture; in support of the Yes On 2 ranked-choice voting campaign in Massachusetts; and this week’s suggested feminist reading.
“A Painful Day”: No Officers Criminally Responsible for Death of Breonna Taylor
More than six months after Breonna Taylor was fatally shot in her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky, sparking national outrage and protests, a Jefferson County grand jury has concluded that none of the officers involved are criminally responsible for her death.
Why We Need A Reproductive Justice Bill of Rights
The biases of poverty, sex and race have always motivated reproductive policing.
The U.S. needs a reproductive justice bill of rights—because without it, we continue to risk the gravest atrocities carried out with the official endorsement of the state on women and girls in the United States.
19 Women in Immigration Detention Allege “Aggressive,” “Medically Unnecessary” Surgery Without Consent
Immigrant women at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia, with little to no knowledge of the medical procedure, were forced to undergo unwanted hysterectomies.
The United States has an ugly, and often hidden history of forced sterilization of immigrants, people of color, indigenous women, and anyone else seen as “unfit,” and therefore expendable, by the powers that be.