Statement by National NOW President Kim Villanueva WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s latest move to tie anti-abortion language to extend subsidies for the Affordable Care Act is a cynical and dangerous political stunt. Let’s be clear: the Hyde Amendment already bans any federal funds from being used for abortion care. Senate Republicans who Read more …
Each November, we observe Native American Heritage Month, a time to celebrate and honor the histories, cultures, and contributions of American Indian and Alaska Native peoples. Native American women have played an important and often underrecognized role in shaping feminist thought and activism in the United States. Many Indigenous communities traditionally had social structures that Read more …
August is Intersectionality Awareness Month, dedicated to exploring and understanding intersectionality, a term coined in the 1980s by UCLA and Columbia law professor of Kimberlé Crenshaw that seeks to define the overlapping oppressions that people who are part of multiple marginalized groups experience. “Intersectionality draws attention to invisibilities that exist in feminism, in anti-racism, in Read more …
I spent the first eight years of my life in Narayanganj, a bustling city in Bangladesh, a small but densely populated country bordered by India and Myanmar. Even as a child, I understood there were different expectations for girls. We learned to walk quickly, speak softly, and stay alert. After we immigrated to the United Read more …
Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is the date on the calendar that symbolizes the additional time Black women in the United States must work into the current year to earn what white, non-Hispanic men earned in the previous year. In 2025, that date is today, July 10. Black women earn, on average, about 66 cents Read more …
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