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Julie L. Holcomb: 177 years ago, the Seneca Falls Convention kicked off the fight for women’s suffrage – an iconic moment deeply shaped by Quaker beliefs on gender and equality

Real change, Lucretia Mott believed, would require going to the root of the problem: “mindless tradition and savage greed.”

October 23, 2025 · 2 Comments

Video: Sandstorm

In Seemab Gul’s short film “Sandstorm,” a schoolgirl in Karachi sends a dance video to her virtual boyfriend, but her innocent flirtation turns dark when he attempts to blackmail her. … Continue reading

January 17, 2025 · 3 Comments

Rebecca Gordon: Staring Down Misogyny

What the election means for women (and the rest of us)

December 3, 2024 · 9 Comments

Jessica Corbett: Post-Dobbs Infant Mortality Spike Shows ‘We Must Restore Abortion Rights’

“In the seven to 14 months after Roe v. Wade was overturned, we saw a 7% increase in infant mortality, and a 10% increase in those babies born with congenital anomalies.”

November 5, 2024 · Leave a comment

Christine Rhein: Miscarriage

I want to talk to you—Alito, Barrett,
Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Roberts, Thomas

September 25, 2024 · 15 Comments

Abby Zimet: MAGA’s Hell On Earth | Women’s Rights, Child Care, Free School Lunch and Cat Hair

From one glad patriot, “The blue wave is coming, and it is covered in cat hair.”

August 13, 2024 · 10 Comments

Georgia Jensen: Two Years After Dobbs, the Fight Goes On

The reproductive rights landscape is bleak, but there are still ways to fight for abortion access.

June 25, 2024 · 6 Comments

Rose Mary Boehm: Sunsets on Mars are Blue

We’ll soon be sending settlers to Mars.
They’ll be sitting on their porches contemplating
the Martian sunsets.

March 13, 2024 · 6 Comments

Frank Sabatino, DC, PhD: Alzheimer’s Disease and Women

A plant-based diet has more than 50 times the antioxidant potential than any other eating plan on planet Earth and is the most successful way to eliminate the oxidative stress associated with Alzheimer’s Disease.

September 26, 2023 · 10 Comments

Parichehr Kazemi: How female Iranian activists use powerful images to protest oppressive policies

Images of unveiled Iranian women and adolescent girls standing atop police cars or flipping off the ayatollah’s picture have become signature demonstrations of dissent in the past few months of protest in Iran.

December 29, 2022 · 2 Comments

Abby Zimet: A Sharp Turn to the Right

At the Federalist Society’s 40th anniversary gala, 2,000 aging, fearful, sectarian dinosaurs in tuxes and ball gowns applauded their sordid work holding back the tides of change and time.

November 22, 2022 · 2 Comments

Erma Bombeck: Housework Can Kill You If Done Right

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

November 19, 2022 · 4 Comments

Majid Naficy: The Day Chador Is Not Forced 

The day will come when my sisters
No longer wear forced chadors.
Let that day be in summer
So that we can go for a picnic.

October 5, 2022 · 10 Comments

Abby Zimet: He Who Hath Not A Uterus Should Shut the Fucketh Up – Fallopians 13:13

On a good day for duplicitous zealots peculiarly fixated on controlling women’s bodies, Lindsey Graham, a childless, partnerless ghoul who’s never experienced any pregnancy welcome or not, proposed a nationwide abortion ban backed only by a tiny, rabid minority…

September 16, 2022 · 8 Comments

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