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What Is the Patriarchy—and Why This Blog Exists
The patriarchy is a global system that privileges male power while limiting women’s access to leadership, autonomy, and safety. It influences everything—our politics, laws, religions, workplaces, and even our relationships. And while its shape may change across cultures and time periods, its impact remains deeply rooted.
This website and blog are dedicated to exploring how the patriarchy operates—and how it is being challenged.
What to Expect
- A new post every week
- Diverse voices and international perspectives
- Focus on real women, real stories, and real power
- Clear writing that invites both newcomers and experts into the conversation
- Connections to activism, law, and culture—without jargon
My Approach
Each week, I will publish one blog post that explores a different aspect of patriarchy and resistance to it. My focus will be intersectional and global, examining:
1. What the Patriarchy Is
We’ll define it clearly—not just as an abstract idea, but as a lived reality. From historical context to the way it’s embedded in our institutions and cultures, we’ll break it down and name it.
2. Global and Historical Perspectives
Patriarchy is not just a Western concept. We’ll look at how it operates across time and geographic space—from Indigenous women reclaiming ancestral power, to Iranian women pushing back against state control, to African American women leading change in the U.S. and beyond.
3. Laws, Movements, and Current Events
Each blog will explore how patriarchy is either reinforced or dismantled through legislation, court rulings, protests, and social movements happening around the world right now.
4. Power, Image, and Control
From fashion and beauty standards to media narratives and body autonomy, we’ll look at the more subtle—and deeply personal—ways patriarchy shapes identity and behavior.
This Is a Storytelling Space
Patriarchy is held together by stories—about who matters, who leads, and who stays silent. This site is about reclaiming those stories. It’s about truth-telling, resistance, and lifting up the women who’ve always found ways to fight back.
We’ve been told the same story for centuries. It’s time to write a new one.
