I first encountered the Combahee River Collective Statement in a women’s-studies class, my second year of college at SUNY Buffalo. We had been reading about divisions within the feminist movement in ...

Poor Patricia Arquette. No doubt she thought that by sticking up for wage equality for women during her Oscars acceptance speech, she'd become a real-life heroine of the feminist movement. She'd be ...

For entrepreneurs of color, the pursuit of success can often feel like an uphill battle. While fellow entrepreneurs are doing well, scaling their businesses, building their teams, and getting national ...

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Misogyny affects all women in our society in some way, but many women also face ageism, ableism, and other -isms regularly. When combined with misogyny, these other types of oppression ...

Oppression is built into the social fabric of the societies in which we live--and therefore needs to be explicitly and openly challenged. EVERYWHERE WE turn, we find evidence of a society where people ...

A protester addresses police blocking the entrance to Interstate 195 in Miami. A friend shared her raw emotions on Facebook last week after a viral video put everyone at the scene of George Floyd’s ...

In 1978, artist Gilbert Baker designed what would go on to be the biggest symbol of the LGBT movement: The Rainbow Flag. The legacy of the flag is that different thoughts and ideas united and made ...