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Mostly, I'm tired of people on the internet telling me what to care about or what supposedly distracts me.

Dofat: “We can’t give up on any students who want to continue their education.”

Okorafor: “We had tremendous potential to change the narrative as African women.”

The Indiana rule doesn't go far enough to protect vulnerable students on campus.

Mason: “We’re educating the next generation of leaders—not just criminal justice leaders, but leaders in all of our communities.”

Watching Wonder Woman become Wonder Woman made me catch my breath. She made me want to be brave and compassionate.

Nicolazzo: "The […] thing is not to frame trans* people as facing massive deficits or always needing to catch up to their cisgender peers."

A substantial amount of feminist activism exists in the digital space—online and in social media. Doctoral student Briana Barner thinks it is essential to capture and retain these…

Feminist Fight Club never quite gets to the root of the problem: the workplace is still structured for men's success, not women's.

When I was in graduate school, I was a part of the Tallahassee Equality Action Ministry (TEAM), an interfaith direct action movement that brought together religious organizations …

Scholars traditionally have had trouble translating their high-level, nuanced thinking to a broader audience, said Dr. Megan Goodwin . Pop culture's flip communication style and l…

In a recent essay , “Can't or Won't: The Culture of Helplessness,” published on Inside Higher Ed , professor Lori Isbell expressed frustration with what she identified as “the cul…

When I was teaching at a university—which I did for 12 years—I never considered seeking disability accommodations. (My disability is invisible, by the way—to those I've not disclo…

I started Rebecca Solnit's The Mother of All Questions (Haymarket Books, 2017) on International Women's Day, March 8, which was also the Day Without a Woman protest/strike organiz…

As the curator/director of the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation-National Historic Landmark, Dr. Ashley N. Robertson uses public history to inform the present and future. Housed in t…

Hope gives us a kick in the pants and makes us act; fear overwhelms and keeps us stationary. We still need hope.

The movie Hidden Figures tells the story of four black women who worked at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration during the manned space era. Although their work was c…

I find that I want to join her, to become ugly and unlikeable to remind everyone of the “ugliness” women face day in and out.

Protecting universities was never FERPA's intended purpose, and it is time to stop putting a school's reputation before student safety.