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The First Women’s March

By Pema Khandro — 2019

More than two-and-a-half millennia ago, Mahapajapati Gotami, the Buddha’s aunt, set a precedent for women’s rights.

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Black, Female and Buddhist in Academia: Threats to Wellness and Opportunities for Healing

Mining my spirit for enlightenment, I have been able to unearth treasures of boundless compassion such that I feel genuine appreciation for everyone and everything. Instead of complaining, I commit to using all that is dumped on me to fertilize my wisdom, courage and determination.

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Kamilah Majied
2012
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The Legitimate Children of Rape

Writing in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Dr. Felicia H. Stewart and Dr. James Trussell have estimated that there are twenty-five thousand rape-related pregnancies each year in the United States.

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Andrew Solomon
2012
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Why Has COVID-19 Been Especially Harmful for Working Women?

COVID-19 is hard on women because the U.S. economy is hard on women, and this virus excels at taking existing tensions and ratcheting them up.

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Nicole Bateman, Martha Ross
2020
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Serena Williams: How Black Women Can Close the Pay Gap

Black women are 37 cents behind men in the pay gap—in other words, for every dollar a man makes, black women make 63 cents.

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Serena Williams
2017
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‘We Have to Be Better’: Megan Rapinoe and the Year of Victory and Advocacy

With her play and her talk, did the soccer star inspire us to redefine the meaning of sports? She tried.

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Liz Robbins
2019
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Billie Jean King: The First Female Athlete-Activist

Billie Jean King isn’t interested in being a legend—she’s interested in succession.

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Caitlin Thompson
2021
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A Timely Collection of Vital Writing by Audre Lorde

In her public appearances, Audre Lorde famously introduced herself the same way: “I am a Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.”

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Parul Sehgal
2020
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5 Indigenous Women Asserting the Modern Matriarchy

They’re reclaiming the tradition of female leadership and turning the old, white, male-dominated perspective of history on its head.

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Chelsey Luger
2018
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