Women and oppressed genders

International Women’s Alliance says: ‘End forced displacement, neo-fascism & war’

This statement, slightly edited here, was issued March 8 by the International Women’s Alliance, a global grassroots women’s organization. For…

March 15, 2019

Int’l Working Women’s Day shows nothing stays the same

International Working Women’s Day, March 8, is celebrated in many countries to acknowledge past and present struggles for women’s equality…

March 12, 2019

International Working Women’s Day celebrated in the U.S.

A number of commemorations took place on March 8, International Working Women’s Day, in the U.S.  Here is a sampling…

March 12, 2019

Oppose Trump’s Title X changes

March 5 -- President Donald Trump added another notch on his campaign promises belt on Feb. 22. But Planned Parenthood…

March 5, 2019

Pauli Murray, gender-nonconforming civil rights, women’s rights activist

Civil Rights and women’s rights activist Pauli Murray was the brilliant theorist who laid the intellectual foundation for some of…

February 22, 2019

Say her name: Sandra Bland

  Feb. 16 -- The room at the Auburn Avenue Research Library for African-American History and Culture was filled to…

February 19, 2019

Louisiana abortion case is headed to the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court ruled Feb. 7 to stop an anti-abortion law, passed in Louisiana in 2014, from going into effect.…

February 14, 2019

Women’s marches hit all forms of bigotry

Tens of thousands of protesters marched in 89 cities around the world on Jan. 19 in conjunction with the third…

January 22, 2019

A message to the Jan. 19 marches: Building unity and solidarity

Women and all gender-oppressed people are under attack. From the federal government shutdown, hitting women workers hardest;  to the Education…

January 17, 2019

To oppose Title IX ‘revisions’ send public comments by Jan. 28

The U.S. Department of Education’s proposed revision of Title IX regulations contradicts the intent of those rules addressing sexual harassment,…

January 17, 2019