#MeToo spreads widely online

The campaign was established to demand a visible end to blackface in Sinterklaas celebrations. Its organizers used peaceful demonstrations and public education, turning an entrenched national...

The killing and subsequent protests built new organizing networks and debates about policing, accountability and community power. Ferguson activists shaped national and international public discussion...

The Supreme Court recognized marriage equality nationwide. LGBTQ organizing won a major legal change, while marriage-centered inclusion did not resolve poverty, healthcare access, trans discrimination...

Crenshaw explained how overlapping forms of discrimination can disappear from single-axis policies and data. Intersectionality became a widely used framework while scholars and organizers continued to...

Demonstrations in the US and abroad linked gender equality to racial justice, migration and reproductive rights. The scale of participation raised questions about coalition leadership and whose...

Voters approved removing the constitutional abortion ban after years of campaigning by reproductive-rights groups and survivors. The result marked a major shift in state control over women’s health...

Activists organized demonstrations across France demanding action against violence toward women and LGBTQ people. The network linked public protest with education and community organizing.

The directive set minimum rights around parental, paternity and carers’ leave and flexible work. It treated care as a labor and equality issue, while uneven national implementation shaped access.

The killing sparked mass protests and renewed scrutiny of policing institutions. Black organizers, local coalitions and abolitionist groups connected racial justice to budgets, public accountability...

Organized by Black community and anti-racist groups, the protest expressed solidarity with US demonstrators and called attention to institutional racism in the Netherlands. The Black Archives...