2015 Round up of Feminist New Year Resolutions
Last week as we said goodbye to 2014 and hello to 2015, feminist writers and activists reflected on the struggles and victories from the past year with a plan to move forward. We collected the top...
View Article#ReclaimMLK: Reclaiming Our History and Future
This year, Martin Luther King Jr. Day was different than those in recent memory. The visibility of police and vigilante murders of black Americans changed the way we engaged in MLK Day this year, and...
View Article#BlackGirlsMatter Too: Ending the Exclusion of Black Girls
Earlier this month, the African American Policy Forum released a report, Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced, and Underprotected, written by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, a Columbia University...
View ArticleThe Best of #IWD2015
This last Sunday was International Women’s Day (#IWD2015). This day, created to celebrate, empower, and advocate for women can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. Here are some of my favorite...
View ArticleThe Root Cause of Women in STEM Problem #AddWomen
Last month, the American Association for University Women (AAUW) released a report, Solving the Equation, which outlines the variables that affect women’s success in computing and engineering. It is...
View ArticleWhy All of Our Girls Needed #ToTheGirls
For those of us who had to navigate our preteen/teenage years without today’s wealth of social media, it might be difficult for us to imagine thousands of women from all over the world reaching out to...
View Article#HowToSpotAFeminist and Reclaim Your Narrative
On May 5, 2015, feminists managed to learn something new from Conservative radio host Doc Thompson: We are quite easy to spot. Thompson encouraged his listeners to share their methods of identifying...
View Article#LikeAGirl and Empowertising Campaigns
There’s a new trend of empowerment-focused advertising that’s challenging sexist stereotypes, sparking conversations, and igniting social media participation. Andi Zeisler calls it “empower-tising.”...
View ArticleFrom #BaltimoreRiots to #BaltimoreUprising
We are taking a look at the evolution of the hashtags surrounding Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray on April 12, 2015. What began with #FreddieGray led to #BaltimoreRiots, then...
View Article#BaltimoreUprising
Editor’s Note: #F contributor Aisha Springer lives and works in Baltimore; below she writes about her experience of life in Baltimore during and since the Uprising. Also see the curation here of the...
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