In the interest of bringing new voices to the blog, we welcome our guest writer, Tara!

An interesting, albeit relatively unexamined element emerged from the Sotomayor Supreme Court confirmation hearing that merits further examination.
Sotomayor’s now ubiquitous “wise Latina” comment from a 2001 speech has been overanalyzed to the point of being [...]

Just stumbled across an old press release about Eve’s Tower, a Hydra Property development in Dubai that is for the exclusive use of women entrepreneurs. 20 floors for “today’s woman of substance,” according to AME business news. Check it out. Fancy!

World Population Day was July 11. How did you honor it?
I read a statement from the United Nations Development Fund’s Executive Director, Thoraya Ahmed Obaid. We’ve written in the past about maternal mortality, and now is the time to revisit it. When women have access to reproductive health care (and by that I mean access [...]

We here at Global Sistergoods obviously love handmade, and we’re guessing you do too. But did you know that some of your favorite businesses might be forced to close, due to some well-intentioned but ultimately bad-for-small-business legislation? It’s called the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, and it was written in response to an influx of [...]

Someone just told me about Sistren, an amazing, transformative theatre company in Jamaica. Sistren stages community theatre productions that reflect socio-economic issues as they relate to gender roles. From their site:
Sistren Theatre Collective (STC) is an independent women’s organization, established in 1977 that has effectively employed the use of artistic expression as a means of [...]