International Women’s Day

  • This Week in Essays

    Happy International Women’s Day! Why not read some essays if you have extra time today, starting with Dayna Tortorici laying out the reasons for striking today at n + 1. Timothy Denevi ventured to CPAC and got a front row seat to…

  • Why Is It Always up to the Women?

    Why Is It Always up to the Women?

    That’s the real tangle of women’s labor; it’s too deeply ingrained to the way our lives work for us to properly strike from it.

  • We Still Have A Long Way to Go

    A grim reminder of one of the reasons we still need things like International Women’s Day: the suggestion that men should take responsibility for not raping women is apparently outrageous. At Salon, Mary Elizabeth Williams tells the story of Zerlina…

  • Happy International Women’s Day!

    In 1909, the Socialist Party of America marked the anniversary of a garment workers’ strike by declaring February 28 National Women’s Day. A few years later, on the other side of the globe, a Women’s Day demonstration for bread and…