I was working in Haiti in the weeks after the January 2010 earthquake, doing what humanitarian workers do: distributing water, coordinating shelter, running logistics. I thought I knew what the women ...

Gestapo-like ICE agents descended on my city, bringing out protesters as well as destructive opportunists who commit the same violence for fun every weekend here.

A new Boston exhibit, “A Studio of Her Own,” shows how early women artists struggled to learn anatomy in hospitals, refused to wear veils while sketching nude male models and scoffed at critics who ...

Charlotte Maxeke, Lilian Ngoyi and Helen Joseph are some of the leaders extolled in a small exhibit at the Apartheid Museum that pays rare tribute to those who fought pass cards. Current-day leaders, ...

“They started calling me albino,” says one girl. “I didn’t like that at all.” While a high proportion of students who get bullied are multiracial, this type of harassment often goes unnoticed by ...

On his very first day in office, President Donald Trump fired Admiral Linda Fagan, the first woman in American history to lead a branch of the armed forces. She was evicted from her residence with ...

Up to 90% of women sentenced to prisons in the US are survivors of sexual and physical violence, either in childhood, adulthood or both. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer recently announced her ...

Having already withdrawn from the Human Rights Council, the U.S. has adopted an increasingly isolationist and obstructive stance within international institutions. Will the United States become the ...

Stimming, in all its forms, reflects our shared need for grounding, an expression of the connection between body and mind. Self-stimulatory behaviors are often associated with autism, but in truth, ...

In her recent address before the United Nations Security Council, the Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten delivered a searing account of the devastating and shocking ...

A few weeks ago, as the East Coast braced for snow, Mayor Zohran Mamdani encouraged New Yorkers to stay home and read Heated Rivalry, a steamy enemies-to-lovers hockey romance. I stayed home. But ...