As noted in last month’s “Abortion Bans an Indicator of Misogyny,” we are reprising women’s struggle to access abortion and other forms of healthcare. Although misogyny has never faced death in the [...] Continue Reading
Women Hold Up Half the Sky
Blooming Beginnings: Sweet Girl Farms
As the citrus season comes to a sweet end and the warmth of spring turns our acres pink, Sweet Girl Farms, a farm stand run by Liset Garcia continues to flourish. At her stand off of Alta Avenue, you [...] Continue Reading
Happy Birthday, Dolores
On April 10, civil rights icon Dolores Huerta turns 93. She keeps her indomitable energy and passion for social justice, women’s rights and more. How is she going to celebrate? In Sacramento, she [...] Continue Reading
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
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La Importancia y los Beneficios de Hablar con tus Hijos Sobre la Sexualidad
Por CLAUDIA POWELL Una de las principales razones por las que los temas relacionados con sexualidad continúan siendo un tabú en muchos hogares y muchas instituciones es por la falta de comunicación [...] Continue Reading
Abortion Bans an Indicator of Misogyny
We have returned to the situation of 50 years ago, when abortion was available only in some regions of some states. As an abortion counselor in southern Illinois in the 1970s, the author raised money [...] Continue Reading
Abortion Bans an Indicator of Misogyny
We have returned to the situation of 50 years ago, when abortion was available only in some regions of some states. As an abortion counselor in southern Illinois in the 1970s, the author raised money [...] Continue Reading
Honoring Ana Belén Montes
Ana Belén Montes was released on parole Jan. 8 after more than 20 years in U.S. prisons. She was convicted of espionage. Her actions were motivated by conscience and were uncoerced and unpaid. She [...] Continue Reading
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
January 2023 [...] Continue Reading
Voters of Color and Women Saved the Democrats from Disaster
Despite new laws to keep people from voting and gerrymandering election districts to take away the power of minority communities, the Republican “red wave” that pollsters predicted ahead of last [...] Continue Reading
The Woman King
While I was doing doctoral studies on the trans-Atlantic slave trade and its impact on African kingdoms in West Africa, it never crossed my mind that Hollywood would produce a film on this topic. [...] Continue Reading
Brilliant African Diaspora Culture in Cuba
Creating universal literacy and an environment where education is universal and free and accessible at all levels leads to a cultural flowering so extensive and deep as to be perhaps better [...] Continue Reading