Feminist History

When confirmed to serve as a justice on the Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will become the U.S.’s first...

Editor’s note: Launching Tuesday, Feb. 1, and culminating on March 10, the Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Project pays tribute to this feminist icon with a...

“When I think of Harriet Tubman, I think of the importance of freedom for all. I think of her as...

From persistent pay gaps and housing insecurity to shamefully high mortality rates, Black women shoulder many of the same challenges...

Since its inception, the U.S. has treated caregiving as an innate, natural behavior that women need to express and ignored...

In the mid-1930s, Anna May Wong was Hollywood’s preeminent Asian American starlet. The U.S. is just beginning to recognize her...

Hard as it is for my granddaughters to believe, there was a time when a woman could be arrested for...

We must never forget Mills College’s legacy as a historically inclusive women’s college and a safe haven for immigrants, LGBTQ...

Historic records of Harriet Tubman’s life in freedom show her to be a resilient woman with deep spiritual beliefs and...

No microaggression I’ve ever faced felt micro. It’s aggression, plain and simple. A march for racial justice in Washington D.C.,...