Rhonda Cooksey

  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… Read More »Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow

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… Read More »My Farewell to the Women’s Center

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… Read More »Morgan’s Farewell Blog

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… Read More »We Can Do Hard Things: Our Bodies

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… Read More »Thoughts on BBLs 

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… Read More »Must Read: Tony Morrison’s Jazz

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.… Read More »Zora Neale Hurston’s “Black Death”

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… Read More »Black Women in the Olympics Trials 

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… Read More »Lucile Bluford

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… Read More »Queer Freedom: How Can We Be Both Held and Free?