Feminism is a journey, not a destination. We travel some of the same roads as our foremothers. Our descendants retrace a few of our footsteps, rediscover some things we've experienced, and continue hacking through the sexist thickets that still block the way…
The media and anti-Title IX pundits are fond of framing controversies around campus sexual assaults as a relatively "new" phenomenon that started in 2011. Too often that leaves out the 45-year history of schools and colleges unfairly ignoring, obstinately defying, and only reluctantly complying…
Pamela Price entered Yale University in 1974 as a Black nationalist with an Angela Davis-style afro. She'd never heard of Title IX and wasn't attracted to any of the women's organizations on campus. She put her heart and energies into the…
A new Institute for the Study of Sport, Society and Social Change at San Jose State University launched yesterday, but media coverage of the kick-off event gives the impression that only men are athletes and activists. A featured panel of "leaders and legends"…
The U.S. Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee has at least another week to consider what it will ask Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos since it delayed her nomination hearing from Jan. 11th to next Wednesday, Jan. 18. My suggestion: Ask…
Pop quiz: Who said, "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” Go ahead, google it. You'll find lots of sources all over the Web and social media agreeing that the quote came from poet and writer Maya…
A professional association of Title IX administrators recently proclaimed solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. Meanwhile, a federal lawsuit in Minnesota claims that protecting transgender students' rights amounts to discrimination against girls under Title IX. The intersections between discrimination…
I saw ghosts in October. I could sense that female athletes were out there being sportsy and all, but in my local newspaper mostly they were invisible. I decided, on an irritated whim, to monitor the San Francisco Chronicle's coverage…
Title IX itself isn't on the ballot Nov. 8, but it might as well be. The gains made for sexual and gender fairness through Title IX were created by politicians, courts, and activists, and can be undone by them, too…
Journalists's coverage of Title IX disputes put the heat on government and educational institutions to deal with sex discrimination, from Cheryl Fields at The Chronicle of Higher Education in the 1970s to Tyler Kingkade at the Huffington Post and BuzzFeed today. Their…