Thank you so much to everybody who joined the Unfree MAL! Here are the final stats: 48 knit pattern sales 20 crochet pattern sales $427 donated to the National Women's Law Center Both Liv and I decided to add back in the money lost to transaction fees with

"...white males argued that black slave women were not “real” women but were masculinized sub-human creatures." -bell hooks, Ain't I a Woman This past Monday was the International Trans Day of Visibility, so for our final case study of the Unfree KAL, we’re going to

Let’s talk about the wage gap! You may have heard just this past Tuesday of Equal Pay Day. Equal Pay Day this year fell on March 25 [1], and symbolizes how far into the new year a woman must work to make what a man made in a comparable

Note: Much of the research for this post stemmed from two anecdotes, one in White Feminism by Koa Beck and one in Let’s Move the Needle by Shannon Downey. Though I won’t be directly quoting either here, I highly recommend reading both books for the more personal perspectives.

"Prior to white male support of suffrage for black men, white women activists had believed it would further their cause to ally themselves with black political activists, but when it seemed black men might get the vote while they remained disenfranchised, political solidarity with black people was forgotten and

Welcome to Unraveling Privilege, a blog about activism, craftivism, and intersectionality! Today is International Women’s Day, and the cast on day of the Unfree MAL! To celebrate, let’s discuss and define white feminism so we can begin an exploration on how to identify and dismantle it. “What woman

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. And I am not free as long as one person of Color remains chained. Nor is any one of you.” - Audre Lorde, “Sister Outsider” “We knew that there could be

Right now, the US is matching the steps of 1930’s Germany with terrifying accuracy. Around the world, though, many countries are swinging towards the far right, climate change is wreaking havoc, and human rights violations abound. It is tempting to bury your head and attempt to ignore it all,

Much of what I have learned over the years, which will go into this blog, came from reading. Any time I reference something that came from a book or article and not my own thoughts will be cited, but this post will act to compile the many informative books I’

Hello, and welcome to Unraveling Privilege. This blog is meant to be a place to collect what I’ve learned about various activism branches over the past decade, collating information about intersectionality somewhere people can earnestly engage. It is often said that we as white Americans should not rely on