Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow
by Rhonda Cooksey Serving as blog editor for the UMKC Women’s Center has made for a joyous summer. I chose my summer classes to help me learn ways to speak up for women, and…
My Farewell to the Women’s Center
Jenna Gilio As this summer draws to a close, my time at the Women’s Center must end. I cannot believe how quickly this time has passed! It seems like just yesterday I was publishing my…
Morgan’s Farewell Blog
Well, here we are. I am leaving the Women’s Center and going into the real world (scary). I have been working with the Women’s Center for a full year and still remember the excitement I…
We Can Do Hard Things: Our Bodies
by Jenna Gilio On this week’s episode of We Can Do Hard Things, Glennon Doyle poses this question to listeners: “Why are we at war with our bodies and can we ever make peace?” Glennon…
Thoughts on BBLs
By Morgan Clark Recently there was a tweet on Twitter showing a line of women in wheelchairs waiting to be wheeled onto the plane from the Dominican Republic. All of them just received a BBL…
Must Read: Tony Morrison’s Jazz
by Rhonda Cooksey Tony Morrison’s novel, Jazz, is not a single performance piece but an entire concert with narrators as fascinating as the characters. Their narrations are instrumental—instruments of storytelling that lead us through various…
Zora Neale Hurston’s “Black Death”
by Rhonda Cooksey Born in Alabama in 1891, Nora Neale Hurston set out to study African American folklore in search of the commonalities between races. As one of the first black, woman anthropologists, she travelled…
Black Women in the Olympics Trials
By Morgan Clark It seems like Black Women are showing up at the Olympic trials these past few weeks. Whether it’s breaking world records or demonstrating a protest, Black women are in the headlines. …
Lucile Bluford
by Rhonda Cooksey “Black women’s contributions to the American women’s rights movement and the efforts to recognize their distinctiveness in the struggle for gender equality have long been ignored primarily because of the social construction…
Queer Freedom: How Can We Be Both Held and Free?
by Jenna Gilio On this week’s episode of We Can Do Hard Things, Glennon and her wife, Abby, discuss their experience of balancing their queerness and spirituality while combatting institutions that require them to deny…