People who are marginalized on the basis of race, gender, gender identity, disability, socioeconomic status, and other factors need policies to support our ability to make decisions about our own reproductive lives.
As repayment has resumed for millions of borrowers, an expert on the student debt crisis considers the racialized and gendered nature of student debt
On Wednesday, May 3, the Freedom to Learn National Day of Action will mobilize people to defend the right of students to learn about systemic injustice, as well as ideas that form the basis of social justice movements.
We had the chance to chat with Cole over email about The Truth About White Lies, the recent push to bar books about racism in schools, and her advice for teen readers who are still learning to speak out.
During Black History Month, at a time when Black history is being banned in schools, we remember the mothers of the reparations movement.
Zendaya’s treatment in Dune exemplifies aspects of colorist privilege and gendered racism.
Jewell Parker Rhodes never learned about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in school. It wasn’t until she was an adult that she read about the white-led mob violence that left hundreds dead and the historic Greenwood district in Tulsa destroyed.
comments (idare@womensmediacenter.com or #wmcIDARE) is creating a space for conversation about the impact of this iconic musical, adapted as a film in 1961. We begin with three leading Latina thinkers because the memory and experience of our community matter.
Hollywood would rather produce more “ethnic” stories and sell them back to us instead of facilitating reparative measures or narrative justice. Frances Negrón-Muntaner breaks it down.
A new Women’s Media Center report finding that white men occupy more than two-thirds of guest spots on major Sunday news shows confirms decades of research. Journalism scholar Carolyn Byerly explores the reasons behind the exclusion of women’s voices in news media.
Beck’s book reflects white feminism for what it really is: a strategy for gender equality that’s shaped by colonialism, imperialism, and white supremacy.
Bridgerton deftly handles race, in much the same way Lin Manuel Miranda’s game-changing masterpiece Hamilton did.
If we continue to see ourselves outside of Blackness, we risk becoming the ball and chain of the anti racism movement.
This month is a good time to recognize the urgency of questions about what it means to be a woman.