When Women Pursue Justice

What does it mean when women pursue justice? What is that world like when women invite all others to pursue justice along? This is the world all in women's studies strive and struggle, with much hope, for the future of humanity. This mural, titled "When Women Purue Justice"--a 2006 exhibition of Brooklyn Public Library, depicts a collage of 90 sisterly souls that pursue relentlessly peace and justice.

Black Feminism & Creativity

Please view this 56-minute major address, "Creativity, Black Feminist Roots, and Human Evolution," delivered in September 2003. It charts the evolution of Black Feminist Studies as an academic discipline by one of its foremost founders, Dr. Akasha Gloria Hull. Professor Hull reads from her new novel. Professor Hull is Professor Emerita of Women's Studies and Literature at UC Santa Cruz and Visiting Professor of Black Studies at UC Santa Barbara.

We would love to hear from you your thoughts on this address on black feminism and creativity in your comment.

What is a Women's Studies Degree

What is women's studies? What is a women's studies degree? In this 7-minute video, we are given a few glimpses into the world of women's studies.

A Women's Studies Starter: Is It for Freedom?

This song, "Is It for Freedom?" provides us much food for thought, about the state of the world we are in--and the role of every human being to the world. Is it for freedom, song writer and artist Sara Thomsen asks. When we explore the world, considering our relationship to it through the "intersectional" lens of gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality, and so on, we must ask ourselves what it truly means when we do things in the name of freedom, liberty, and emancipation.

Lyrics:

Rulers of the nations as you fuss and fight
Over who owns this or that and who has the right
To design, build, sell and store and fire
All the bombs and guns to defend your holy empire

There are children hungry, children sick and dying
There are mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers crying
They're only pawns in your play of power and corruption
Slowly starve them, your new weapon of mass destruction

CHORUS:
And prove to me America, that you care
And prove to me America, that you're aware
Who's dying for your freedom in this land?
Who pays the cost for the liberties you demand?

Is it for freedom, or our comfort and convenience
Is it to profit for big business we pledge our allegiance
Are we prisoners in the land of the brave and the bold?
Held by indifference or hearts grown hard and cold

CHORUS

Children of the world, you have the right
To sing and dance, run and play, let your dreams take flight
As the innocent die you rulers carry the shame
And if we stand idly by we share in the blame

And oh, America, do we care?
Oh, America, are we aware?
Who's dying for our comfort in this land?
Who pays the cost for the convenience we demand?

Children of the world, you have the right
To sing and dance, run and play, let your dreams take flight

In the next 15 weeks or so, we will journey together. Christan Star and I look forward to exploring this beautiful world of ours with you through women's studies.