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During a Q&A with Tribune Business New York, Mock shared some of the women who influenced her work: Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston. In 2012, Mock started a hashtag on Twitter called #GirlsLikeUs to empower trans women all over the world. In 2012, Mock received the Sylvia Rivera Activist Award.
The phrase "women of color" was developed and introduced for wide use by a group of black women activists at the National Women's Conference in 1977. [21] The phrase was used as a method of communicating solidarity between non-white women that was, according to Loretta Ross , not based on "biological destiny" but instead a political act of ...
In 1992, six national women of color organizations came together seeking to increase their impact on the mainstream women's rights/pro-choice movement and on US policy: Asians and Pacific Islanders for Choice, National Black Women's Health Project, National Latina Health Organization, Latina Roundtable on Health and Reproductive Rights, National Coalition of 100 Black Women, and Native ...
Vice President Kamala Harris could become the nation's first female president now that President Joe Biden has exited the race and endorsed Harris.
The central characters begin their lives in similar places: as children, they all live in Queens, New York, all are young women of color, and all have immigrant parents, albeit originating from ...
Bringing those voices to the table is crucial, because women, and especially women of color, are substantially underrepresented in corporate-leadership positions—only four S&P 500 CEOs are women ...
Monica Simpson is a queer Black activist, artist, and executive director of SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, the United States' largest organization dedicated to reproductive justice for women of color.
INCITE! Women, Gender Non-Conforming, and Trans people of Color Against Violence, formerly known as INCITE!Women of Color Against Violence, is a United States–based national activist organization of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end violence against women of color and their communities.