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 [...]

Here at Global Sistergoods, we are lucky to to have Irene Tinker as an advisor and mentor. Irene is a true women & development trailblazer, a scholar/activist who has written extensively and founded the International Center for Research on Women, among her many accomplishments. She also has hilarious stories. (If you ever meet her, ask [...]

Africa’s first democratically elected woman president (hard to believe it took this long! oh wait, we are still waiting for our first woman president..ahem…), Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, is so stinking cool. (Okay, if you aren’t a neoliberalist, just bear with me. The lady is coping with some serious post-conflict issues.) Last year, Global Sistergoods hosted a [...]

Beth’s four-year-old daughter, Quincy, just started Taekwondo classes, and I couldn’t be more proud. On her first day, they broke boards. How cool is that? She’s well on her way to being the a** kicker I always longed to be.
But back in my day, girls didn’t do those kind of sports (although I confess…I did [...]