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- Simone Biles Does Not Owe Other Black Women Slicked Down Edges April 26, 2023by: Toni A. Wilson, Director of Culture & Narrative ShiftRaeTay Photography.This past weekend, Simone Biles, Olympic medalist and one of the greatest gymnasts in history, married the love of her life, NFL player Justin Owens, and quickly changed all of her social media handles to “Simone Biles Owens.” She blissfully shared pictures of their intimate […]Girls for Gender Equity
- Black Girls and Women Are Missing Too. April 23, 2023Black Girls and Women Are Missing Too. Or Didn’t You Notice.: What New TV Show Alert: Missing Persons Unit Gets Wrongby Toni A. Wilson, Director of Culture & Narrative ShiftFox, Getty Images.Society believes Black girls can just disappear. People believe no one is coming to look for the Black girl. They believe Black girls are invisible. So […]Girls for Gender Equity
- Is it because I’m Black or because I’m a Woman? March 28, 2023by: Momy S., YWAC OrganizerLA Johnson/NPRWould you like me to speak softer? Be less angry? Less violent? Would you like me to stand in the shadow of men to be culturally accepted? Would that make you feel better? You think I look better when I straighten my hair. When I talk less. When I’m less […]Girls for Gender Equity
- #StopCopCity and our Fight to Protect Black Girls & Youth March 22, 2023by: Heaven Peoples & Damala Denny, Manager of Youth & Alumni Organizing (GGE)Girls for Gender EquityLast week, organizers across the country collaborated on the fight to stop “Cop City” — a project in Atlanta, supported by influential corporations and the Atlanta Police Foundation to build a mock city in the Weelaunee forest. They plan to construct a massive […]Girls for Gender Equity
- Angela Bassett Didn’t Smile. And? March 13, 2023by: Toni A. Wilson, Director of Culture & Narrative Shift (GGE)Getty ImagesAngela Bassett didn’t smile. Nor did she clap. She didn’t fake it. She instead sat in her disappointment, and presumably, in her exhaustion. She didn’t give white Oscar viewers her well wishes but instead chose to recognize the injustice she’d just experienced. And I am […]Girls for Gender Equity
- Natural Hair as Undeniable Self-Expression: the CROWN Act and its cultural history February 21, 2023Image — NSU Shepard Broad College of LawOn July 3rd, 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the CROWN Act into state law. The CROWN Act, which stands for Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair, prohibits discrimination based on hair style and texture for the first time in California, making it the first state in the […]Girls for Gender Equity
- Golden Globes — Black Women Were Never A Monolith January 25, 2023Golden Globes — Black Women Were Never A Monolithby: Naomi Lilly, Director of Marketing & Storytelling for Girls for Gender Equity (GGE)Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty ImagesThe late Claudia Tate was known for her profound literary criticism and her ability to exceed “the normative “protocols,” as she termed them, of literature, scholarship, and race”. In her novel, “Black […]Girls for Gender Equity
- Maime Till-Mobley Was More than Emmett Till’s Mother, She Was the Mother of a Movement November 14, 2022By Toni. A Wilson, Director of Culture & Narrative Shift (GGE)Danielle Deadwyler as Maime Till Mobley in Till. Lynsey Weatherspoon/Orion Pictures“The business of one of us had better be the business of us all!” — Maime Till MobleyWhen I first learned about the release of the film Till, produced by Whoopi Goldberg and written and directed by Chinonye Chukwu, […]Girls for Gender Equity
- Black Women’s Pay Inequity Starts in the School System October 3, 2022by: Toni A. Wilson, Director of Culture & Narrative Shift (GGE)When I started middle school, I switched from a school that was three blocks away to one that was a 15-minute bus ride from my house. When we received subway Metrocards on the first day of school, I was told that my card would be “half-fare” […]Girls for Gender Equity
- Black girls Come Up in Hip Hop, Too. September 29, 2022by: Toni A. Wilson, Director of Culture & Narrative Shift (GGE)Image Source: Paramount+On Friday, Paramount+ debuted the new film On the Come Up, based on the best selling Young Adult novel of the same name by Angie Thomas. The film, marking Sanaa Lathan’s directorial debut, follows a 16-year-old girl named Brianna (Bri), aka Lil Law, as […]Girls for Gender Equity