COVE

Photographed by Stephanie Welsh, graduate of Syracuse University, this set of photos depicts a female circumcision rite in Kenya. These photos won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography.

These rites are often done without anesthetics of any kind and performed on very young women and children. Often, as depicted here, these rites are carried out by other women who have also had this done to themselves. This girl is likely somewhere between the age of 10 and 15, but female genital mutilation can be conducted anywhere from days after birth to after starting puberty; in...

In 1969 there was a famous event that is very important in the history of the rise of gay rights, called the Stonewall Riots, or also called the Stonewall uprisings. Stonewall Inn was a gay club located in Greenwich Village in New York City. New York City police had raided the club, roughly hauling employees and patrons out of the bar, this led to riots among the neighborhood residents and bar patrons that were affected. This led to six days of protests and very violent encounters with law enforcement. 

In the 1960s people were still not kind to LGBT americans, solicitation...

This image is from July 19, 1964  when tensions between the NYPD and rioters increased as protests and riots continued.  The crowds called for the arrest of Gilligan as they were met with shards of glass and garbage lids thrown from residents of rooftops above them, and the swinging clubs of officers. 

This image of protesters storming through armed and helmeted officers illustrates the anger of civilians of the Harlem Community. Infuriated by the wrongful murder of an innocent fifteen year old African American in an act of police brutality, they stormed the streets of the city...

The Indian caste system is one of the most pervasive societal structures in the world, with origins dating back to as many as 3000 years ago. While it was outlawed in the 20th century by the founders of post-colonial India as a ratification to the constitution, its social, cultural, and economic effects are still felt in Indian society today, and many claim that it is still alive in the everyday lives of the country’s citizens.

Divided into five main levels, the system outlines a hierarchy whereby one’s caste (largely decided by birth) dictates rules regarding their relations,...

This picture shown above is a bunch of protesters during the Pigford vs Glickman case. There were many of these protests that were going on at the time before and during this case. They were all there to protest how the USDA treated the African-American farmers during this time. As we can see the sign in this picture is saying that the USDA was a "cruel joke" to many farmers and employees. Many people felt this way because the USDA was supposed to be a program these farmers and employees could rely on when they needed it most. However, that is not what happened for most of these African...

Simone de Beauvoir published the book "The Second Sex" in 1949 which was originally published in France and then in the United States in 1953. This was between the first and second wave of feminism and set the tone for the next wave of women's right activism. Jules Laforgue was one of the most individual of French poets but also the most entertaining with speech-rhythms and heterogenous diction. Beauvoir’s allusions to Jules Laforgue, in her founding text from post- war French.  She read his poems quite often and reexamining the poet’s writing on women and the relationship between the...

Milestone Media is a company founded in 1993 by four young black men: Derek T. Dingle, Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, and Michael Davis. These men all had a background in the comics industry. This company was founded under the idea that it would be a black-owned company that created diverse stories with black characters as the lead of each of their new comic lines. The founding members believed in the importance of diversity and representation, up until this point it was hard to find many comics with leading characters that weren’t white. In his book Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics...