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 […]
Janitor
It was my second day on the job at Walmart corporate, by far the most prestigious position this brown girl had ever been in, and the pressure of the production floor, of the perfectly polished […]
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“By the People,” the Library of Congress’s crowdsourcing site, seeks those willing to transcribe handwritten historical documents so that they can become accessible to all.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 […]
In Celebration (and Criticism) of Women’s Suffrage
Ratified on August 18, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was the culmination of nearly a century of activism dedicated to procuring voting rights for women. And though we’re entering the centennial of that historic event this […]
AZResist Has Turned Arizona Purple
AZResist bills itself as “the only independent calendar covering social justice and progressive politics across Arizona.” Widely regarded as essential daily reading for the Resistance in Arizona, its co-founders Cyrus Tharpe and Julie Golding have […]
Reincarnation
“Her wounds came from the same source as her power” -Adrienne Rich 1.I dreamt my father dated a man. He pulleda 3 x 5 from his wallet. Blonde strandsspilled off the man’s shoulders in black […]
Hope is The Thing With Feathers: Tiffany White on Falconry and Social Change
When Tiffany White tells kids to reach for the skies, she means it. As a professional falconer — yes, that’s a thing — she and her raptors protect our food supply from pests while reducing […]
Dreaming Ourselves Free of the Trump Regime
I.I wash up on the shore. Trump has been chasing me all night, and I am bone tired. Surely he will not follow me on land, I think to myself, but he does. I flee […]
Excerpt from The Revolution, Vol. 2, No. 15, 1868
Introduction to the Excerpt The Reconstruction period marked a time of intense social change in the post-Civil War United States. One of the many changes was that (white) women began to advocate for the right […]
