In the middle of 2019, in order to bolster my spirits and my faith in humanity, I was reading about effective, proactive women when I came across a quote by Pia Klemp that prompted this […]
A creative resurgence of the official publication of the National Woman Suffrage Association.
Category: Current Events/Pop Culture
ACTIVHISTorian Archive: Toni Smith, 2002-2003
In 2003, I was stunned to see this photo in the Arizona Republic, its ragged edges and tape still visible when I later scanned it so I could always have it to remind me what […]
The Long Before #MeToo Project
The Long Before #MeToo project grew out of a student query in one of Dr. Pamela Stewart’s Fall 2016 women’s history courses on the Downtown Phoenix campus of Arizona State University. After reading Harriet Jacobs’ […]
Engage! Educate! Empower! Planting the Seeds for Revising History
We’re creating intergenerational and intersectional safe spaces where individuals, driven by justice and a deep love for themselves and their communities, could use archival knowledge to preserve their history and dismantle the power structure that […]
Writers For Migrant Justice (WFMJ): The Power of Poetry as Resistance
It started as a tweet by poet and activist Christopher Soto. Soto, along with Javier Zamora, Jan-Henry Gray, and Anni Liu, were organizing a reading in New York, and he was calling for poets and […]
WFMJ: Salt Lake City
It was truly was a privilege to organize the Salt Lake City reading with Paula Mendoza, JP Grasser, and Willy Palomo. They are fierce advocates for our community and the power writers have in bringing […]
WFMJ: San Antonio
Poet Faylita Hicks reached out from San Marcos, TX about Writers for Migrant Justice and partnered up with Write Art Out Inc. and Manos Amigas, a San Marcos based nonprofit dedicated to helping migrants navigate […]
Letter from Cibola Prison
Salvadoran asylum seeker, Alejandra Barrera, a transgender woman who has been locked up in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) jail in New Mexico for 19 months, recently filed a petition for a Writ […]
WANTED: Women’s history aficionados to transcribe history for posterity
“By the People,” the Library of Congress’s crowdsourcing site, seeks those willing to transcribe handwritten historical documents so that they can become accessible to all. No experience necessary! LOC has a particular need for those […]
The Revolution (Relaunch) 