Sandra Sealy. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw. Jessica Valenti.   Women have always had to be #creative about making limited resources work to sustain themselves and their families. They understand what it means to make the…
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We, Us All, Must Now Speak Out   While a partial or full reversal of the high court's landmark 1973 ruling would impact the rights of all people who are capable of becoming pregnant,…

  172 Republicans Vote Against Violence Against Women Act – One Day After 7 Women Murdered In Georgia By 21-year-old White Man   The legislation did pass 244-172; only 29 Republicans voted with Democrats.…

Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Kimberlé Crenshaw. Dolores Huerta. Hanan Ashrawi.   When I'm sometimes asked 'When will there be enough (women on the Supreme Court)?' and my answer is: 'When there are nine.' People are…

Mona Eltahawy. Abigail Adams. JoeAnn Hart.   Misogyny has not been completely wiped out anywhere. Rather, it resides on a spectrum, and our best hope for eradicating it globally is for each of us…

Katha Pollitt. Maya Angelou. Sojourner Truth.   Even if we all decided to define personhood to include fertilized eggs and embryos and fetuses, they would not have the right to use a woman’s body…

Progressives Really, Really Pissed. Schumer Again Helps McConnell Stack The Courts With 15 More Right-Wing Judges.   Senate Democrats' deal with McConnell is the second time in just two months that Schumer has agreed…

Shirley Chisholm. Margaret Chase Smith. Margaret Thatcher. At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. Shirley Chisholm (more…)

 The prosecutor Republican senators hired to interrogate Dr. Christine Blasey Ford about her accusations of sexual assault by Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, decided the best way to get to the truth…

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Monday: “Even by the far left’s standards, this shameful, shameful smear campaign has hit a new low. Senate Democrats and their allies are trying to destroy a…

1 out of every 6 American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime Perpetrators of sexual violence are less likely to go to jail or prison than…

UPDATED. In Solidarity! In cities across the country today from New York to California, women (and some men) walked out of their jobs, homes and schools in support of accusers of Trump Supreme Court…