538’s Grace Hopper documentary will give you a double dose of inspiration. Watch the trailer here.
Being underestimated — by men, by women, by themselves — is something most women have in common. We have to work harder from the outset to resist being dismissed, to attain equal footing, and then to maintain it. It’s endless, repetitive work, cut across and intensified by yet other assumptions based on accent, skin color, class, education, dress. And it’s a powerful thing, the learnt reflex to look at a woman and see someone who is by definition unaccomplished, a novice; someone’s disciple, companion, muse; someone with no power or expertise of her own. I’m not immune to it — I’ve caught myself in the act of underestimating women, of having assumed that the woman in the room isn’t the expert in the room. It’s a reflex so disturbing to notice that it’s tempting to pass over it in silence. But it’s a reflex enabled by the shocking paucity of women of authority and expertise across all media — a paucity not easily registered, so used are we to it.
L7 is reuiniting and making all your dreams come true. But you have to help them out first! Find out how in this week’s AAA.
See this report? It found that 100% of women of color in STEM face gender bias on top of tons of racism! ONE HUNDRED PERCENT. That means all of them, in case you didn’t realize.Every last one.
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I think the goal of the quilt being displayed at her hearing on Tuesday is to show Jacksonville and the world that she’s not alone. Awareness has been made around her case, which is really important, and there are also a lot of other women who go through a similar experience of being prosecuted for defending themselves. …The idea of a quilt is based in it being crowd-sourced. When we lay out the quilt in these spaces, we’re creating a highly visible representation of the experience of sexual assault and domestic violence that tells many stories instead of just one.
Forcing Marissa to serve even one day in prison represents a profound and systemic attack on black women’s right to exist and all women’s right to self-defense.
Alisa Bierria in Maddie’s piece on Marissa Alexander’s release today - and the work that’s left to do.
None of my teachers told me that Black feminism was the framework that made my life possible. It just didn’t come up. That’s why I want you to read this book.
What the political conversation around abortion refuses to acknowledge is the reality of people’s actual, lived experiences around sex and reproduction. The reality is that 1 in 3 women will have an abortion in the U.S. and that many, many people make deeply personal decisions around reproduction that are never debated on the House floor. Nor should they be.
Amidst our revelry, my friend burst through the door to show us a ridiculous (read: drunken) picture on her phone of herself and Abbi Jacobson — tongues out, eyes akimbo, in MY elevator. MY ELEVATOR… For the next ten minutes, Quinn and I calmly debated (read: hyperventilated) the ethics of approaching our doppelgangers lest we all self-destruct. Verdict: YOLO.
“When I say I was married to the cause,” Coretta is quoted as saying, “I was married to my husband whom I loved… It was my cause, and that’s the way I felt about it.”
Learn more about the First Lady of Civil Rights in our archives.
Much like midterm elections, the 2015 Academy Awards will finally shine a light on that long oppressed and often overlooked minority group: Straight white men.
We must see our communities as having a greater stake in the safety of our queer siblings. I refuse to settle for statistics and sad news stories. Community response and action is the foundation of survival for marginalized communities, and it always has been.