Connecting the dots on Brett Kavanaugh
September 25, 2018
—Laura E. Gómez
Details on the truths and lies of the Brett Kavanaugh US Supreme Court Nomination hearings and other events haunting Kavanaugh’s nomination
Category: Gender & Sexuality
Back to school as a trans kid
August 28, 2018
—Ann Travers
For trans kids who use the summer break to transition, the new school year is full of possibilities: ranging from a newfound feeling of comfort and acceptance to discrimination and danger.
Personal experience, political action
August 25, 2018
—Joyce Antler
Radical feminists taught their generation that telling your story and listening to the stories of others are crucial steps to politicization. Fifty years later, aspiring women office-holders are learning that bearing witness to women’s experiences may be the best route to political success.
The Campaign to Win the Vote for Women: Why Social Change Takes Time
March 1, 2018
—Johanna Neuman
It is easy to forget just how controversial was this idea that women should have the vote and the fight for women’s voting rights lasted far beyond inking the Nineteenth Amendment into the U.S. Constitution.
The women who brought nothing short of a revolution to the profession of law
January 19, 2018
Stories From Trailblazing Women Lawyers (May 2018) tells the captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and… READ MORE
Transgender Awareness Week: A Reading List
November 16, 2017
Support #TransWeek with some of our best books and most anticipated releases for 2018 that offer radical perspectives and open-ended explorations on issues facing transgender people in the past and present.
Women’s Equality Day Reading List
August 26, 2017
A comprehensive list of all of our best feminist literature representing women and gender equality. From the Women’s Rights Movement to abortion rights to the early suffragists of New York City, this list covers all aspects of the female fight for equality.
Say Her Name! Confronting Erasure and Rethinking Possibilities for a Democratic Future
July 19, 2017
—Stanley I. Thangaraj
The work of women of color and trans people of color often goes unrecognized in our larger world. This silence informs us about the politics of living and which bodies and lives are made to count. Their names must be said, or the very system of inequality will continue to operate and grow.