Lidia Alvarez is a fair labor and sustainability advocate. She is currently pursuing her Master’s in Risk, Resilience and Integrity Management at Glasgow Caledonian University. Lidia has over 10years experience in the fashion industry and earned her Bachelor of Arts, Fashion, and Textiles from California State University of Los Angeles.
In 1989, Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “intersectional” to describe how race, class, gender, and other individual characteristics “intersect” with one another.
Read MoreMany people have drawn parallels between the AIDS epidemic and COVID-19, but activists want to be clear--no one responded to people dying of AIDS. During this time, the needs of the LGBT community are still overlooked and COVID-19 requires a queer response.
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Megan Red Shirt-Shaw (Oglala Lakota) earned her bachelor’s from the University of Pennsylvania in English, her master's from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Higher Education, and is currently pursuing her Ph.D in Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development with a focus on Higher Education and a minor in American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. Prior to her Ph.D program, she worked in undergraduate admissions and college counseling. She currently teaches the "College Success Strategies" course and advises at the 7TH GEN Summer Program.
Read MoreThis information was collected on November 21, 2019 from an event hosted by New York City Black Women’s Political Club in partnership with the NAACP, The Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College, and the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Read MoreTiffany Hyeon is a writer and consultant whose work traverses the gray areas among international adoption, trauma, and reproductive justice. She grounds her perspective and commitment to this work in her lived experience as an American Korean adoptee and survivor of child sexual abuse at the hands of her adopted father.
Read MoreAt Our Repro Rights Community, we advocate for greater reproductive health access for every body. It’s not easy and we have had missteps, but that has only made us better advocates. Feminism and allyship are just words. Instead, we need to actively check our privilege, preconceived notions, and unconscious biases.
International Women’s Day (IWD) is dominated by…
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