Whether pushing for action on climate change, peace, LGBTQ equality, feminism, reproductive choice, or fighting racism, Leslie Cagan’s voice, presence, and expertise have long been visible - for more than 50 years.
Producer Marti Noxon has two shows about women’s pain and rage debuting this summer—and the timing couldn’t be better.
Enduring Season 2 of the Hulu series proves even harder than expected. The series is beautifully shot, acted, and directed by women, despite the fact that the showrunner is a white man, but the actual story leaves much emotional relief to be desired in this political climate.
The spirit and sass of the Parkland school’s namesake live on in the million young anti-violence activists who have risen up since the shooting.
The real work of trade unions often takes place behind the scenes. Carolyn Jacobson as a feminist, journalist, women's health advocate and mentor to the young exemplified in her life the substance of a progressive labor activist.
From the Harlem Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement and beyond, powerful Black women writers have created a ripple effect, inspiring future generations of Black women to pen their own powerful narratives.
Angela Davis’s feminism was born through Marxism, and through theory and collective struggles as well. These two steps opened the road for a feminism that includes poor and black women, standing out against mainstream white, bourgeois feminism. It is not even possible to speak of a white feminism anymore, not only in the USA, but also in Europe. Europe is no longer a white continent.
Is network TV ready for a Black Lesbian superhero?
A survey of the life, work and associations of the late New York Review of Books editor Elizabeth Hardwick, the transplanted Southerner who became a writer of note among the literary and political circles comprising the New York Intellectuals of the pre- and postwar period, she had a knack for illustrating what might have been called feminist themes by way of specific details of specific lives.
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