This film brings together leading transgender activists and actors, including Sam Feder and Laverne Cox. In it, trans people talk openly about the challenging reality of being transgender in the film industry, and the many ways Hollywood has historically misrepresented the community. The documentary...
Born in Kairouan in Tunisia, Fatima al-Fihri was the daughter of a wealthy Muslim merchant. Though there’s a lot of mystery surrounding this woman’s history, one thing is for certain—she established the al-Qarawiyyin mosque in 859 AD in Fez, Morocco. This mosque later became the fam...
One of the most prominent and well-known gay-rights activists wasHarvey Milk, who ran for city supervisor on a socially liberal platform that opposed government involvement in personal sexual matters. Milk placed 10th out of 32 candidates, earning 16,900 votes, winning the Castro District and ot...
How have civil rights activists helped shape America? How did abolitionists want to change American society in the early 1800s? How was the Civil Rights Movement disobediant? What was one effect of the women?s movement on society? How did the 14th Amendment affect the women's suffrage movem...
Between 1955 and 1968, acts of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience produced crisis situations and productive dialogues between activists and government authorities. Federal, state, and local governments, businesses, and communities often had to respond immediately to these situations that highlighted ...
How did women suffragists help civil rights activists? How violent was the women's rights movement? How has the women's movement affected the American family? How did the Cultural Revolution hurt Chinese women? How were women viewed in the Victorian Era? How did the feminist movement influence...
aThe real story is not about an American man posing as an Arab American lesbian. It’s not even about identity theft and its consequences for the woman whose pictures were passed off as Amina’s or even about the fact that the hoax endangered the lives of activists in Syria who have been...
The brings together student activists from around North America for a busy weekend of workshops, networking lectures, and a lot of fun. C. We encourage every school to send at least one representative (代表) (if not more)and we are keeping the costs down to help make this possible. Any...
aEven assuming this is achievable, it does nothing to address the possibility that activists will turn to other, equally ingenious ways to pursue self-interest. 假设什么都此不是可达成的,它做论及活动家将转动对其他的可能性,相等地巧妙方式追求利己主义。 [translate] aWe must clarify first that the...
Besides, the government helped a lot to fight the social dogma and old belief, and a collaborative effort from the government, female social activists, writers, scientists, politicians and most importantly ordinary people have changed the very social norm of not sending females to universities. The...