Women's Media Center

06/02/2026

We're kicking off Pride Month with this week's , inviting Dr. Marcie Bianco, a longtime contributor of WMC, to discuss feminism and Pride 2026. Join us on Instagram Live on June 3, at 12:30pm EST, for this unmissable event: https://instagram.com/womensmediacenter

05/21/2026

Trump’s explicitly racist, misogynistic, antitrans, ableist, xenophobic, Christian nationalist, Islamophobic, and imperialist agenda positions gender studies as inimical to his delusional and exclusionary vision of U.S. greatness and exceptionalism. In short, he is threatened by an intellectual enterprise that carefully and skillfully provides college students with tools of resistance.

As a field that helps college students “rigorously interrogate, critically think, and creatively imagine a more just world,” women’s studies has been targeted by both the Trump administration and state legislatures. But scholars, faculty, staff, and others are fighting back.

05/09/2026

In the past 20 years, at least 30 members of Congress from 13 states and Guam have faced workplace sexual harassment allegations, totaling at least 53 accusations publicly reported, says one new report from the National Women’s Defense League.

Research by the National Women’s Defense League, covering both Congress and state legislatures, shows that these “abuses of power are impacting who serves and how effective and focused they can be.”

05/02/2026

The policies of the Trump administration and the Republican-led Congress have led to a perfect storm of rising grocery prices while families and individuals have less access to government support.

According to recent polling, 68 percent of adults report worrying about being able to afford groceries and food, and women are particularly impacted by food insecurity.

Trump policies and recent legislation have reduced access to aid at a time of rising food prices.

04/23/2026

Few things about the Taliban's new criminal code are as clear as its primary subject intended for control: Afghan women, whose routine conduct is especially vulnerable to being recharacterized as criminal.

In early January, Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada quietly enacted the expansive “Criminal Procedure Code for Courts,” which effectively turns violence into everyday rule, patriarchy into official policy, and ideology into enforceable law.

04/23/2026

“For me, it’s about how we hold ourselves accountable not just to the organization, but to the larger movement, and to an ordinary Dalit woman on the ground.”

Dalit women in India, who face compounded marginalization due to both caste and gender, are working across generations to make sure their movement evolves alongside the women it serves.

04/21/2026

Join us for a very special : long-time social & environmental justice campaigner .leonard joins us to explore the importance of peaceful protest as an essential democratic right.

TOMORROW, 12:30pm EST, on IG Live: https://www.instagram.com/womensmediacenter

04/17/2026

"A union man warned me early in my career as a labor lawyer: When they can’t question your competence, they’ll question your loyalty. He meant it as a caution. It turned out to be a blueprint."

“Their stories of abuse and sexual violence are heartbreaking. They are not surprising.” But there are existing models that create true accountability.

04/10/2026

"Why should women have to rely on other women for protection in the first place?"

The creation of gender-segregated spaces to ensure women’s safety does not address the root causes of violence.

04/01/2026

"Today, access to reproductive health care is unpredictable and inequitable in half of U.S. states... What we need is an innovative strategy."

Lessons from movements in other countries can help activists in the United States mobilize to expand access to reproductive rights and care.