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Pro-birth vs. pro-life: Conservatives are disregarding circumstances

Caroline Trimble ’26, Hawk Columnist October 2, 2024

Although Project 2025 hails the overturning of Roe v. Wade as “the greatest pro-family win in a generation,” this is only the beginning of the conservative agenda to rid the nation of abortion...

Ad Hawk: Trivializing violence against women

Ad Hawk: Trivializing violence against women

Susan Liebell, Ph.D. September 27, 2023

On average, three women are killed by a current or former partner every day in the United States, and nearly two-thirds of those domestic violence homicides were committed with a firearm. The presence...

Knocked down, but we get up again: Why must we beg for our rights?

Don Sullivan April 4, 2023

When I first sat down to write another column, I wasn’t really sure where to start or what to write about. But the truth is, after the events of this past month and week, I cannot seem to think about...

Q&A with Hawks: What issues are important to you in this election? And why? 

The Hawk Staff October 26, 2022

REPORTING BY: CHRISTINA SCANLON ’24, NATALIE BRISLIN ’23, JOE SCHREIBMAN ’23, MAX KELLY ’24, VINCENT KORNACKI ’25, P.J. O'HARA ’24, KENZIE ALLEN ’23, TAYLOROLSON ’25, MARIO D’ELIA ’23,...

Bridget Quinn discusses Ida B. Wells over Zoom. 	PHOTO COURTESY OF KIM ALLEN-STUCK

Bridget Quinn discusses her book about women suffragist artists

Nenagh Sheehan September 22, 2020

Bridget Quinn, author of “She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage and What Happened Next,” held a virtual discussion open to St. Joe’s students, faculty, and staff on Sept. 17 about the women’s...

No progress towards equal pay

No progress towards equal pay

Jackie Collins January 21, 2020

Where we should be in 2020 Over the summer when I was hanging out with my friend at her house, her mother asked me if I was applying for internships, what career I was interested in after graduation—you...

Abortion access faces the Supreme Court

Abortion access faces the Supreme Court

Regina Schliep October 22, 2019

The implications of June Medical Services v. Gee The Supreme Court announced on Oct. 4 that it will hear June Medical Services v. Gee, a case that challenges a 2014 Louisiana law requiring abortion providers...

Discussing the rights of mothers

Discussing the rights of mothers

Maggie Brennen October 22, 2019

The impact of Warren’s pregnancy discrimination case Sen. Elizabeth Warren, 2020 presidential candidate, made headlines recently for standing by her account of the way she was treated when she...

Restrict choice, restrict freedom

Restrict choice, restrict freedom

Brittany Swift March 26, 2018

The necessity of a woman's right to abortion The state of Mississippi passed the Gestational Age Act on March 19, which bans most abortions after 15 weeks—the most restrictive abortion law any of the...

Reflections on International Women's Day

Reflections on International Women’s Day

Ann Marie Maloney March 20, 2018

Inspiration from the day’s radical history I returned to my apartment on International Women’s Day on March 8 and, because my afternoon classes were cancelled before spring break, I indulged in an...

Challenging gender norms

Challenging gender norms

Victoria Tralies January 25, 2018

Five ways to advocate for women “‘I stopped moving my lips and turned cold.’” These are the words of a woman pseudo-named Grace, the subject of an expose by Babe’s Katie Way on actor and writer...

Ryan Scanlan '20, Malcolm Odum '20, Kayla Michel '20 and other St. Joe's students chant at the Women's March
(Photo by Luke Malanga '20).

Advancing in thought and action

Sam Henry and Luke Malanga January 23, 2018

Students attend second annual Women’s March on Philadelphia The Women’s March on Philadelphia brought thousands of activists to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway for the second consecutive year. It...

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