On October 12th, federal Immigration Enforcement Officials searched and raided the Washington, DC, home of Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar (MN-05), escalating attacks on Somalian Americans and immigrants. Omar arrived in the US in 1995 after fleeing Somalia’s civil war with her family and became a US citizen through derivative citizenship in 2000 after her father […]
Take Action: What Can I Do About the Immigration Crisis?
In light of the Trump administration’s endless crusade of anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies, it’s easy to feel defeated if we aren’t lawyers, Congresspeople, or activists located near the border. Although this administration makes us feel powerless, it’s important that we, as feminists, mobilize to amplify the work of the undocumented folks and immigrants who have […]
Beto O’Rourke is the Candidate Texas Deserves
Exactly one month before a Presidential election, my mother will walk outside and stick ten political yard signs in our grass. Without fail, each night someone comes by and tears them down, such a common Texas occurrence that the film Boyhood had an entire scene about it. While she knows that her signs will be […]
Hillary Clinton: “When women lead, families succeed.”
Hillary Clinton took to the stage at the Women’s Leadership Forum National Issues Conference on Friday to explain how “when we fight for women, we’re fighting for our entire country.”
Let My People In: What Women Have at Stake in the Senate’s Current Immigration Reform Bill
The Senate’s current immigration bill does a lot for women.