Sep 19, 2019
ESD Is A Movement
I stood shoulder to shoulder in a circle of about forty women. Some were smiling and some were solemn as we passed a colorful ball of...
Mar 21, 2019
Remember the Ladies! (updated to our time: Remember the Marginalized!)
Happy Women’s History Month! Many American women have read the quote by Abigail Adams, the second First Lady of the U.S., who admonished...
Mar 14, 2019
First Wave Feminism and Self-Defense
Most of my knowledge about women training in martial arts at the beginning of the twentieth century has come from jokes and cartoons...
Mar 6, 2019
Fighting Like Amazons: Suffrage and Self-Defense
Next year is the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote in the United States. As we...