If you've ever felt that you're part of a nameless sisterhood, take a moment to appreciate Arvonne Fraser. As smart as they come, energetic, socially astute and politically savvy, Fraser was a doer and an organizer. She got things done…
It looks like a coalition of advocates for Title IX may get to take the Trump Administration to court. (Video: Lawyers and a student survivor of sexual assault explain their case at a press conference.) A federal magistrate judge at…
Title IX doesn't always work. It won't save a student from being deported if she's an undocumented immigrant. Title IX has never given women a fair share of athletics funding or coaching jobs. As a legal tool, Title IX isn't…
The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) says it gets too many complaints about discrimination, creating an "unreasonable burden" on the Office. It recently changed procedures to make it harder for people to file complaints and is now…
I'm jazzed to announce that I'll be speaking about Title IX history particularly in the context of Fresno, Calif. at the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association on Saturday, August 4, at Santa Clara…
Advocating political and cultural change engenders backlash. Student survivors of sexual assault successfully pushed many educational institutions to do their Title IX duties in the last decade despite ongoing, painful pushback. They worry for the student survivors of gun violence…
Imagine you're a 15-year-old girl and something's happening at school that you think is unfair to girls or LGBTQ students. School administrators and even school district officials ignore your complaints or tell you to go away. Who you gonna call?…
One of the byproducts of immersing myself into researching Title IX is an altered personal tolerance for sex discrimination. More and more, I don't. Tolerate it, that is. And that means letting go of some formerly cherished cultural reference points…
Happy 2018! In the new year, the backlash against Title IX will make more headlines as the Trump Administration continues to change regulations dealing with sex discrimination in education. Advocates for girls and women will push back and eventually move…
Writer Rebecca Solnit brilliantly described the commonplace phenomenon of mansplaining in her book Men Explain Things To Me. There's a similar phenomenon -- menplaining? dudespouting? -- in which men co-opt women's grievances to complain that they're the victims of sexism when…