In January 2020, there were 580,466 people experiencing homelessness in America. Though the full impacts of COVID-19 on unhoused communities has not been measured, the pandemic has certainly made the poorest communities even poorer, and exacerbated longstanding issues. According to Read More
Category: Activism
The Relationship Between Gun Violence and Domestic Abuse
In the United States, a woman is fatally shot by her partner every 16 hours. That is 760 women slain each year – leaving children without their mothers, families without their sisters and daughters, and communities without their colleagues and Read More
12 Myths About Domestic Violence
Domestic violence, also called intimate partner violence, domestic abuse, or relationship abuse, affects more than 12 million people in the U.S. every year. The statistics are shocking; about 1 in 3 women have experienced physical violence, rape, and/or stalking by Read More
5 Ways to Support Domestic Violence Survivors
If you want to help address violence against women and support domestic violence survivors, there are easy ways that just about anyone can get involved. Here’s what anyone can do to help! 1. Understand the issue. Did you know 1 Read More
Promising Young Woman: A Must See with Important Underlying Themes
There are often a variety of guilty parties in a case of sexual assault beyond the perpetrator; those who disbelieve, those who sweep the issue under the rug, and those who do not intervene are common wrongdoers in these circumstances. Read More
Women’s Empowerment Through Education
According to the Malala Fund, there are over 130 million girls worldwide who are not in school. Without an education, these girls will often marry and have children at a young age, work in unpaid or low paying positions, and Read More
How Mutual Aid Groups Helped Communities in 2020
Learn more about how mutual aid has helped communities throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. For the vast majority of global citizens, 2020 was a monumentally difficult year in myriad respects. In 2021, the world is still reeling from the effects of Read More
The Equal Rights Amendment: How The US Constitution is Still Failing Women
It was in a women’s literature class my sophomore year of college that I first learned the shocking fact that the United States Constitution does not have an Equal Rights Amendment guaranteeing equal legal rights for everyone regardless of their Read More
All the People Living with Invisible Illness
For all the people living with invisible illness: you’re not alone. As a sufferer of a progressive but invisible disease, I often pause at the standard box on forms saying: Are you disabled? Am I? If I look at my Read More
Girls Just Want to Have Funds: Equal Pay for Women
Queens! What if I told you that you were being robbed?! From the moment you start working, there is a strong chance that you’ve been underpaid for the work you’ve done. Not because you are underqualified. Not because you are Read More