It fell to Belle da Costa Greene, a Black woman whose racial identity was kept secret for decades, to catalog J.P. Morgan’s immense collection of books and art Toward the…
A serialized biography of Jane Grant (1892-1972), first woman reporter at The New York Times and co-founder of The New Yorker {read}
Having identified intersecting systems of oppression, the Collective argued that overlapping solutions were needed. The 1980 statement is the first recorded use of ‘identity politics’ and they did indeed root…
In one of Carrington’s earliest stories, “The Debutante,” a young woman who does not want to go to a ball switches places with a hyena. The débutante allows her maid…
The past-due revival of Lola Ridge: poet, editor, feminist, and political activist.
Jennifer Wright explains how the color pink became associated with girls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaGSYGhUkvM
Before Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began writing his first compositions, his older sister Maria Anna Mozart, nicknamed Nannerl, had already proven herself a prodigy. The two toured Europe together as children—she…
Identity politics has its roots in an expansive, radical agenda. But you wouldn’t know that from its liberal critics. “We haven’t taken the intellectual contributions of black women seriously enough…
“You wouldn’t give the vote so I had to use a rock” - Carry A. Nation. {listen}
Our series dedicated to the women's movement continues with the changing cultural roles of the 1970s, when women poets refused to be marginalized or tokenized, and public poetry readings and…