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
The State of the World’s Women
On the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day: the good, the bad, and the potentially ugly.
Sex Trafficking: The Abolitionist Fallacy
Criminalizing prostitution might seem like a good way to address sex trafficking.
Indigenous Womens Pushback
For centuries, Indigenous communities have suffered from the violence of displacement, colonialization, and forced assimilation. Today, Indigenous women are leading the struggle for autonomy and self-determination.
Reports
Reimagining School Safety
A look at the dangers posed to students by law enforcement and how to invest in real school safety for our nation’s children.
Black Immigrant Domestic Workers in the Time of COVID-19
Black immigrant domestic workers are at the epicenter of three converging storms—the pandemic, the resulting economic depression, and structural racism.
Report: Agricultural Cooperatives
Opportunities and Challenges for African American Women in the South
Report: Pay, Professionalism, and Respect
Black Domestic Workers Continue the Call for Standards in the Care Industry
Report: Students Under Siege
How the school-to-prison pipeline, poverty, and racism endanger our school children
Report: Mothers at the Gate
A movement of family members is developing around the country that aims to challenge both the conditions in which their loved ones are held and the fact of mass incarceration itself.