Five decades after that contentious moment in the fight for equality, it is still legal for employers to fire LGBTQ+ employees just because of their identity in most parts of this country. That may soon finally change.
According to the BBC, as of 2012, the 62nd year of F1, only five women had ever entered the Grand Prix, the last of whom had competed in the 1990s.
Beyoncé’s choice to place Black womanhood at the center of her new Netflix documentary, Homecoming, is a powerful form of social resistance.
I found that story after story included images of survivors of sexual violence that were gory and denigrating. They often depicted survivors in shredded clothes, fear-stricken eyes, and arms outstretched in appeal.
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed a spending bill that includes the renewal of the Hyde Amendment. The amendment denies the use of Medicaid funds for abortion care with only limited exceptions.
Nigerian teenage activists Kudirat Abiola, 15, Temitayo Asuni, 15, and Susan Ubogu, 16, created It’s Never Your Fault, a nonprofit organization that takes a stand against child marriage, which is legally allowed to continue due to a loophole in the country’s constitution.
In late February, Judge Miller ruled the male-only selective service draft unconstitutional. Miller’s ruling was a declaratory judgment, which means it does not order the government how exactly to amend the draft to make it constitutional, but it is still significant.
Kathryn Kolbert, co-counsel in the landmark Planned Parenthood v. Casey Supreme Court case, gives her perspective on the current push to ban abortion — and what we can do about it.
The results of South Africa’s 2019 general election on May 8 were promising for champions of gender equality in politics, but
Decades after Guatemala's 36-year internal armed conflict, 36 Maya Achi women are seeking justice against the soldiers who raped them and the officials who gave them the orders.
On June 4, the House Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing on “Threats to Reproductive Rights in America.” 18-year-old Youth Testify leader HK Gray testified at the hearing about the barriers she faced when seeking an abortion in Texas as a minor, including needing a judicial bypass to obtain an abortion.
DuVernay’s artful depiction of Linda Fairstein — prosecutor and head of the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan District Attorney’s office at the time of the Central Park Five case — exposes the process through which white women’s pain can be used as a pawn for white patriarchy.
The WNBA is ushering in its 23rd season, and, with it, huge changes
I’m hardly the only high school student stressed about navigating what could be crippling student loan debt. This debt has already reached $1.5 trillion and women, who make up the greatest population of student-debt owers, are particularly burdened by debt harsh effects on everyday life.
Before Stonewall, lesbians were all but invisible in media. Fifty years of activism and advocacy have made a remarkable impact.
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