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The Massachusetts Caucus of Women Legislators. MCWL is celebrating 50 years of bipartisan advocacy and women’s leadership with a year-long campaign launched March 26. COURTESY OF SELBE ALEMU

Massachusetts Caucus of Women Legislators marks 50 years of bipartisan progress

Samantha Genzer April 6, 2025
The Massachusetts Caucus of Women Legislators is celebrating 50 years of bipartisan advocacy and women’s leadership with a year-long campaign launched March 26.
Jodi Tang | Graphic Artist

What we’re still getting wrong about sexism | Data Driven

Sarah Datta March 23, 2025
It’s a shallow interpretation of the data to see higher numbers of women in certain professions and make the claim that women just prefer it. No, we have to think about why they prefer it. 
Trans-exclusive feminism is not feminism | Final Girl

Trans-exclusive feminism is not feminism | Final Girl

Kiana Aftahi April 27, 2023
If we want to progress past age-old stereotypes and prejudices, we have to abandon preconceived notions of sex and gender. 
Yvonne Tang | Senior Graphic Artist

Resurrecting Feminism | Divine Politik

Caroline McCord October 19, 2022
Women and girls need to fight for each other now
Women's March for women's rights

Women’s March protest in Boston continues to raise issue of abortion

Julia Goujiamanis October 11, 2022
Ahead of midterm elections, protestors gathered outside the Mass. State House on Saturday to show support for female and abortion rights candidates. A pro-choice counter protest happened as well.
OPINION (1) 9.13.22

Why Your Vote Matters in the Fight for Reproductive Rights | Latest With Lin

Michael Lin September 13, 2022

The United States Supreme Court made a landmark decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization this summer, deciding that the Constitution does not uphold the right to an abortion. The decision...

Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Let’s Talk About: The irony of anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers who say “my body, my choice”

Mayela Machribie Lumban Gaol December 9, 2021
Anti-maskers appropriating the slogan “My body, my choice" is an egregious indication of how little conservatives actually care about bodily autonomy.
student in the Yellow Rose Project gallery

‘A Yellow Rose Project’ celebrates the women’s suffrage movement through photography

Daily Free Press Staff September 7, 2021
The project features hundreds of women's photographic reflections on the anniversary of the 19th amendment's ratification.
globe placed on the ground

BU students help launch educational Content Creation Lab for teens

Juncheng Quan April 15, 2021
The CCL allows teens to create educational text and videos to share with their peers online.
Musician Haley Martin tunes her guitar before a brief set. Activists gathered outside South Station Monday afternoon for a rally honoring International Women’s Day. DANIEL KOOL/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Activists rally for progressive policy on International Women’s Day

Daniel Kool March 9, 2021
A series of speakers — ranging from musicians to nurses to union organizers — called for equal pay between men and women, noted the disproportionate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mothers and emphasized the need for intersectionality.
Kara Chen/DFP STAFF

Culture Shock: Polarization is ruining societal ability to function, progress

Colbi Edmonds November 3, 2020
The people, a collective force, are the ones who create change. We come together to protest, strike and vote for progressive action. If we cannot join forces across the spectrum of political ideologies, then this intolerance will only hamper our nation’s growth. We can have no progress without conversation. 
Meredith Varner

American Protest: America, please do not jeopardize our reproductive rights

Meredith Varner September 27, 2020
Now that President Donald Trump has nominated conservative federal judge Amy Coney Barrett, the Court has the potential to be as conservative as it last was in the 1930s.  
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