Intersectional feminism is the key to creating a world where all women can thrive. Intersectionality is informed by various life experiences and identities of women across the globe: class, race, economic status, sexual orientation, and, of course, gender identity. The notion that the fight for gender equality and women’s rights…
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The power to amend the Constitution is bestowed upon the states and Congress by Article V of the Constitution. A proposed amendment requires a two-thirds majority in both houses of Congress and ratification by three-fourths of the states. For the states to ratify, both chambers of state legislatures must pass…
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Our twenty-four words Twenty four words. Twenty four words introduced in 1923 by Alice Paul and co-written by Crystal Eastman. Twenty four words that were introduced in every legislative session until they were passed by Congress in March of 1972. Twenty four words reads the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), beginning…
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As we have now entered Pride Month, it is important to commemorate the LGBTQ+ community’s fight to get to where they are now and where equality needs to go in the future. As the Trump Administration rolls back previous Executive Orders protecting the LGBTQ+ community and continues to implement more…
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My name is Ruby Lerman, and I’m a teenager in Montgomery County, Maryland. I have my whole life ahead of me, and I’ve been thinking about it a lot. Ideally, I want to be an engineer or a climate scientist because those fields interest me. However, those fields are very…
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At every turning point in our nation’s history, change has come because people—especially women—refused to stay silent. Sojourner Truth stood up and asked, “Ain’t I a woman?” Shirley Chisholm ran for president as an unapologetic Black woman, declaring herself “unbought and unbossed.” Fannie Lou Hamer told the truth of voter…
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Young men today are growing up in a world full of noise about what it means to be a man.In the search for identity and belonging, many are turning to online influencers who package harmful ideas in the language of empowerment. What may begin as a desire for connection and…
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The House of Representatives passed the SAVE Act (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act). This bill is based on a false fear that there is widespread voter fraud in U.S. elections. That fear has been used to create rules that make it harder for many eligible people to vote—like married women,…
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Written by Halie Moses Last week, during the National Young Feminist Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C., I stood alongside young women and activists from across the country who came to our nation’s capital to make a difference and have their voices heard. Looking around, it became clear that I was…
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Written by Halie Moses In our current political environment, where every hard-won movement–Civil Rights, Women's Suffrage, Reproductive Rights, and LGBTQIA+ rights–is being systematically unraveled, how can one maintain hope, determination, and momentum for achieving something that feels so out of reach, such as solidified equal rights through the law? It’s…
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