THE HIDDEN HERO by Hūmā
There is a big difference between a bird that has always been inside a cage and a bird that has tasted freedom and then is forced back inside.
Raising Our Voices for Justice by Sama
I had asked myself, if I choose silence, if I closed my mouth and quietly endured oppression, would the world even notice? The answer was no. That’s why I promised myself that now was the time to speak up—to accept the risks.
THE FEMINIST FUTURE IS NONBINARY by Catherine Baker-Pitts
I’m taken aback when Gloria Steinem, the “face of feminism,” announces on the Today show that she’s had “a little fat removed from above my eyes so I didn’t look like Mao Zedong.” Steinem is referring to the puffy-faced Chinese revolutionary who died in 1976, around the time when her model-thin figure was featured on a Manhattan billboard, erected by antagonists intent on reducing Steinem to her body.