
March 18, 2017 By Mollie March-Steinman On March 8th, 2017, people around the world participated in the “Day Without a Woman” general strike, which called for women to show their solidarity by […]
March 18, 2017 By Mollie March-Steinman On March 8th, 2017, people around the world participated in the “Day Without a Woman” general strike, which called for women to show their solidarity by […]
February 8, 2017 By Mollie March-Steinman tw/cw: violence against women, misogynoir As women, we are often encouraged, implicitly or explicitly, to be small. There are lots of terms thrown at us when […]
January 31, 2017 By Jacqueline Souza After a disappointing election year and Friday’s traditional Inauguration ceremony, millions of people around the world participated in marches in response to the official beginning of […]
January 19,2017 By Marni Fritz White women, so desperate for equality with men, often leave our sisters of color behind. We saw it in the women’s suffrage movement. We saw it […]
By Edith Bell Pittsburgh City Council passed an ordinance on December 6th endorsing the Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and creating a Gender Equity Commission. Success of the […]
By Tallon Kennedy September 12, 2016 Brock Turner, rapist convicted of penetrating a drunk unconscious woman was released from jail this Friday after serving only three months of his pathetic six month […]
September 2, 2016 By Tallon Kennedy It’s a long time coming for the University of Pittsburgh. On August 25th the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Pitt will now be covering transgender-related medical services […]
September 1, 2016 By Nijah Glenn & Bette McDevitt On a recent afternoon, we visited a long time friend of the Merton Center. Twenty years ago, Christine Haas was the development coordinator/ […]
August 1, 2016 By Nijah Glenn As a young girl growing up in the 90s, I was not immune to the feverish love everyone had of the Spice Girls. They wore outrageous […]
July 29, 2016 By Rianna Lee Earlier this year, singer-songwriter Kesha Sebert (a.k.a. Ke$ha) made headlines with an ongoing legal battle against her producer and alleged abuser Dr. Luke. Several months after […]