Poor Patricia Arquette. No doubt she thought that by sticking up for wage equality for women during her Oscars acceptance speech, she'd become a real-life heroine of the feminist movement. She'd be ...

Oppression is built into the social fabric of the societies in which we live--and therefore needs to be explicitly and openly challenged. EVERYWHERE WE turn, we find evidence of a society where people ...

In your mind’s eye, picture the following scenarios: A black woman in Nigeria bleaching her skin. A gay man in the United States going through reparative or conversion therapy to cure himself of ...

Misogyny affects all women in our society in some way, but many women also face ageism, ableism, and other -isms regularly. When combined with misogyny, these other types of oppression ...

A protester addresses police blocking the entrance to Interstate 195 in Miami. A friend shared her raw emotions on Facebook last week after a viral video put everyone at the scene of George Floyd’s ...

The Oxford English Dictionary defines “oppression” as “the state of being subject to unjust treatment or control.” However, this does not mean that those subjected to unjust treatment or control are ...

In his 1941 State of the Union address, American president Franklin Roosevelt proposed four freedoms that he believed all people were entitled to: freedom of speech, freedom of belief, freedom from ...

If you focus on the Supreme Court’s expansion of equal rights since the 1950s, you could see Justice Samuel Alito’s stunning, leaked draft opinion as a shocking, anomalous reversal, a decision at odds ...

Second Century Chair Professor of Law, Author of Ruin Their Crops on the Ground and Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice, Southwestern Law School Editor’s note: This podcast episode is the ...

Imagine you’ve forgotten once again the difference between a gorilla and a chimpanzee, so you do a quick Google image search of “gorilla.” But instead of finding images of adorable animals, photos of ...