Women's History

Carol Christ in Molivos, Lesbos, Greece, date unknown. (Courtesy) In the late ’90s, I rented a summer house in Molivos,...

Scene from the movie Harriet (2019), starring Cynthia Erivo and directed by Kasi Lemmons, depicting Harriet Tubman leading the Combahee...

Every Valentine’s Day for me is a reminder of how much more is needed to free women to fulfill their...

Harriet Tubman’s disability has pushed me to interrogate how power and vulnerability can not only co-exist but work together in...

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...

Instead of repeating inaccurate depictions of Harriet Tubman’s achievements, let’s reclaim her story and demand deeply researched and respectful interpretation...

Everyone could and should be inspired right now by this living history, not waiting to “celebrate” Harris in years to...

Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and...

Our current system has created conditions where, statistically, mostly white men win. That is its own kind of special privilege....

Polaris, the North Star, is so named because it always points toward true north. Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman used...