In the US, white men have long had the power to make decisions about women’s reproductive health care. Those decisions have often been especially harmful to Black women.
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In the 19th century, Baartman was dehumanized and mocked for her large posterior. So what does it mean when Black women today strive for ‘Sarah Baartman hips’?
A landmark study shows chronic stress from racism can lead to loss of brain function in African American women.
On the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, women’s historic struggles to vote continue to resonate as the country debates who should vote and how.
Cartoonists have to compress their images, so they often use stereotypes. This objectifies the subject and is thus, inevitably, an othering process.
The career arc of Nichelle Nichols – the first black woman to have a continuing co-starring role on TV – shows how diverse casting can have as much of an impact off the screen as it does on it.
Simpson, who has made the black body the focal point of her work, discusses her biggest influences and the challenges of creating in our current cultural and political climate.
Women have long been the targets of police violence as well as men.
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Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History, Dartmouth College
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Assistant Professor, Department of Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre, Brown University
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Professor of English, Flinders University
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Professor of English, Tufts University
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Professor of Epidemiology, Boston University
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Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Miami University
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Assistant Professor of Communication, Florida International University
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Former Director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, Iowa State University
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Associate professor, Epidemiology, Boston University
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Research Professor of Epidemiology, Boston University
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Director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center, Iowa State University