Racial and Gender Justice
Working to combat economic inequality, achieve climate justice, and build peace requires solutions designed to dismantle systemic racism and patriarchy. That’s why all of our projects seek to intersect and achieve justice across gender diversity, and race, in addition to class.
Latest Work
Caitlyn Jenner Isn’t ‘Posing’ as a Woman—She Is a Woman
What makes us feel like and identify as a certain gender or genders is in our brain, not between our legs.
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Looking Beyond the Headlines on Black Jobs and Workers in America
The potential for black workers to rejuvenate the U.S. labor movement and transform it into the ultimate working class and civil rights vehicle is enormous.
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How Black Women Can Rescue the Labor Movement
A new report detailing a survey of black women provides important insights that could help improve conditions for all workers. But will the labor movement listen?
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Report: The Rise of Black Women Workers
From Ferguson to Baltimore, we’re seeing racial injustices reaching crisis level. Black people are struggling, and economic inequality is at the root of much of the discontent.
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How a Broken Tail Light Can Be a Death Sentence in America
We’ve created a perfect storm of poverty, fear, social control and racially charged policing.
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What Immigration Reform Means for Women
Your guide to how the U.S. immigration system affects women differently from men–and how the Senate bill will change it.
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Human Rights from the Ground Up: Women and the Egyptian Revolution
To support women’s rights in Egypt, the international community must condemn state violence, support civil society, and work for economic justice.
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Military Sexual Violence: From Frontline to Fenceline
The root of the sexual assault crisis plaguing the military lies in militarism itself.
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Empire, Capitalism, and Human Trafficking in Northeast Asia
The crisis of people-trafficking and sexual exploitation in Northeast Asia is not a nationalist issue; it is a gender issue.
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