Challenging People to Think: Activism for Atheism
by Sunsara Taylor People generally think of activism as something you do. But activism aimed at changing how people think is equally important. ...
by Sunsara Taylor People generally think of activism as something you do. But activism aimed at changing how people think is equally important. ...
by Lindsey Hennawi “This Little Light of Mine” is the song that my mother chose for all of us to ...
by Kathleen Barry November 16, 2011 Here we go again! Last week Mother Jones published an article, “Herman Cain’s Sexual Harassment Scandal ...
by Amanda Marcotte My fondest wish for 2012 is that it becomes the year where we, as a society, stop ...
by Crystal DeBoise November 10, 2011 Last winter, “Sheila,”a sex worker in her early 20s, had just finished her counseling ...
By Cindy Cooper November 3, 2011 “I think there may be a new page that we’ve come to the United ...
by Phyllis Chesler I began my first book, Women and Madness (1972), with a quote from Doris Lessing’s The Four-Gated ...
by Ileana Jiménez During a recent Twitter chat on #sheparty hosted by the Women’s Media Center, I tweeted: “How many feminists ...
October 29, 2011 In Mississippi, we are witnessing the intersection of race and gender politics in two ballot initiatives on ...
By Gabrielle Korn October 28, 2011 Uncovering the roots of global sex trafficking and protecting its victims are driving forces ...
by Barbara Santee Note by the author: I wrote this article in 1992, but believe it is as relevant today ...
by Carol Downer In the 1970s, I got involved in the women’s self-help movement in California, traveling the countryside to ...
By Mary Lou Greenberg October 7, 2011 Karen Duda signed petitions, went to rallies and participated in traditional pro-choice activism. ...
by Sarah Browning Like many white, middle-class poets coming of age in the early-to-mid-1980s, I was told by my poetry ...
by Merle Hoffman When I first opened a clinic for women’s abortion care in New York in 1971, women finally ...
Speaking out, raising banners, uploading ideas – new & old activists are stepping up. On The Issues Magazine Fall 2011 ...
by Stephanie Gilmore In Cuernavaca, Mexico and Tegucigalpa, Honduras, it was called Marcha de las Putas. In New Delhi, it was Besharmi ...
by Laura Whitehorn If you saw the film The Weather Underground, you saw about three minutes of me. The film, through ...
By Sarah Byrnes October 20, 2011 Here in the U.S., our economic system is just not working for most Americans. ...
By Rosalyn Baxandall October 14, 2011 At last the 99 percent are shaming them: “This is not a Recession; It’s ...
by Elizabeth Koke and Glynnis King Activists, their stirring written passion and accounts, are also on our bookshelves. The Feminist Press surveyed ...
by Juhu Thukral As social justice advocates, we are often searching for ways to connect and strengthen our movements, and ...
by Margaret Morganroth Gullette New ageism is the term I use to describe the current American view of aging-past-youth. Whatever ...
by Thaler Pekar I remember my first feminist act. It was Spring of 1974, and I was nine years old. ...
by Elizabeth Black When I was in college, I was slut-shamed. On the one hand, I was encouraged to save ...
by Eleanor J. Bader Growing up, 39-year-old activist artist Heather Ault never imagined that people had been trying to control ...
by Michael angel Johnson Now I would recognize the warning signs, but then, I was only ten. When I cried ...
The Art Perspective provides a visual and audio forum for artists to exhibit their art and present exciting responses to ...
by Ariel Dougherty September 22, 2011 “The finest minds have always underscored the peacemaking role of women,” Nobel Peace Prize ...
By Linda Stein September 15, 2011 Conservative Republicans flexed considerable muscle earlier this year and threw a knockout punch against ...
By Keely Swan September 8, 2011 The Center for Women’s Global Leadership’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is an international ...
By Madeline Lee Bryer September 1, 2011 The war against domestic violence is heating up. In a decision released publicly ...
by Yifat Susskind Rosemary Gonzalez was murdered in 2009, the victim of a war that ended in 1996. One day, ...