Activism | Jobs To Build These Homes, We Chose an All-Women Crew The Mudgirls collective redefines expectations about what a construction site is supposed to look like—child care, breastfeeding breaks, and all. The Mudgirls | Jul 26, 2018
Women | Reproductive rights | Activism Women’s Rights Are Center Stage in One Kentucky Community A local theater group tackles stigma and prompts conversations in a state where abortion is steadily under attack. Ivy Brashear | Jul 18, 2018
Masculinity | Women What Came Before #MeToo: The Himpathy That Shaped Misogyny Kate Manne’s “Down Girl” describes the origins of a punitive social system that keeps women in their place by rewarding compliance and punishing resistance. Lilian Calles Barger | Jul 10, 2018
Women When Girls Take the Lead on Social Justice: 5 Stories They started a troop focused on girls of color, exposed a human smuggling operation, and generally stepped up when adults didn’t. Kate Schatz, Miriam Klein Stahl | Jun 22, 2018
Reproductive rights Demystifying Female Anatomy with Street Art The chalk drawings aim to educate and surprise. Isabelle Morrison | Jun 21, 2018
Activism “You Taught Me How to Shout Out Loud”: A Love Letter to My Fellow Activists Together we saved lives and sparked changes in the healthcare and social support systems that were crumbling around us. Amelie Zurn | Jun 20, 2018
Reproductive rights | Education | Activism | Local power Where Birth Control Is Scarce, Young Women Create Sex Education Outside the Classroom A Kentucky program trains women to advocate for their reproductive health. Ivy Brashear | Jun 20, 2018
Masculinity | Women Real Gender Equality Includes Femininity (and the Color Pink) As feminist parents, we tell ourselves we’re trying to break down the gender binary. But what’s wrong with skirts and baby dolls? Anne Thériault | Jun 13, 2018
Reproductive rights | Activism | Democratic reforms | Clean elections Just One State Stands Between Women’s Rights and the Constitution Movements such as #MeToo and #SheShouldRun have re-energized the Equal Rights Amendment. Tina Rodia | Jun 11, 2018
Women In Gaza, a Focus on Creating IT Jobs For Women A social enterprise starts up in one of the world’s most difficult environments, but one bursting with human capacity. Elisa Birnbaum | May 25, 2018
Education Kids Say #MeToo After Each Performance of This Play As sex education steadily loses federal funding, this program teaches kids about personal body safety—and that abuse is never their fault. Meera Vijayann | May 16, 2018
Racial Justice | Activism If a Queer Woman of Color Can Check Her Wealth Privilege, So Can You Wealth accumulation has its roots in stolen land, stolen labor, and stolen lives. But you can organize other privileged people with compassion. Iimay Ho | May 15, 2018
Women | Racial Justice | Activism | Mindfulness Beyond Fasting: What We Can All Learn From Ramadan It’s a holiday intended for introspection and community, something Muslims and non-Muslims alike can benefit from. Shaima Shamdeen | May 14, 2018
Activism | Women | Racial Justice Me Too Creator Tarana Burke Reminds Us This Is About Black and Brown Survivors There’s another “me too” story, about a movement that began a decade before it was a hashtag. Zenobia Jeffries Warfield | Jan 4, 2018
Women The Problem With “Silence Breakers” as TIME’s Person of the Year I decided to search for two words on the article’s web page: “patriarchy” or “misogyny.” Zero results. Erin Sagen | Dec 6, 2017
Racial Justice | Criminal justice reform | Women Why Police Violence Against Women of Color Stays Hidden Data show more Black men are killed at higher rates than women, but police-misconduct attorney Andrea Ritchie says that doesn’t tell the whole story. Zenobia Jeffries Warfield | Aug 10, 2017
Reproductive rights | Women What Reproductive Rights Advocates Can Learn From Texas (Yes, Texas) How folks in conservative states are responding—and have been responding for years—to infringements on their civil rights. Melissa Hellmann | Mar 23, 2017
Women A Woman in Trump’s America: 5 Simple Ways to Support Your Sisters Here’s how to show other women you have their backs. Melissa Hellmann | Mar 7, 2017
Racial Justice | Activism To Women Marchers: Just Because You Don’t Feel Welcome Doesn’t Mean You Don’t Belong Issues that impact the womanhood of any one of us—directly or indirectly—impact all of us. Zenobia Jeffries Warfield | Jan 19, 2017
Racial Justice | Reproductive rights | Health care | Women 3 Maps Show Where Legal Abortions Are Hardest to Get—and Who Lives There 1 in 3 women will have an abortion by age 45. Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz | May 31, 2016
Sex in the Wild (a First-Hand Account) What I learned about love from a hermaphrodite, a cannibal, and a dizzyingly diverse array of sea creatures. Eva Hayward | Jan 31, 2013