Lost in the Sauce
Q: This typically silk headwrap is commonly worn by black women while sleeping in the same category as a du-rag. What is it called?
Bonnet
In 2014, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate for her work advocating for young girls' right to education in this nation
Pakistan
The tendency for products marketed specifically toward women to be more expensive than those marketed toward men
Pink Tax
Q: This abolitionist and women’s rights advocate delivered the famous 1851 speech often remembered by the refrain “Ain’t I a Woman.”
Sojourner Truth
Q: In a 1978 poem, this author and activist declares, “You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise”
Maya Angelou
Q: This black-owned fashion label, known for their vegan leather handbags, celebrates cultural inclusivity with the motto "Not For You, For Everyone".
Telfar
Writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's works of fiction and nonfiction often juxtapose Western influences with influences of this nation she calls home
Nigeria
This shorthand refers to those whose desire for equality across gender extends only to their cis-gendered allies.
TERF
Q: This Mexican painter is known for her vivid self‑portraits exploring identity, pain, and political struggle, including her support for Indigenous and workers’ rights.
Frida Kahlo
Q: In her memoir, My Beloved World, this U.S. Supreme Court Justice claimed, “the purpose of dreams is [...] move us forward, rather than being measured solely by the likelihood of their success”
Sonia Sotomayor
Q: This colorful West-African tunic, popularized as a symbol of Black pride and counterculture ideals in the 1960s, is named based on a Yoruba word for “traditional shirt.”
Dashiki
Manuela Sáenz was a revolutionary heroine from this country dubbed Libertadora del Libertador" (Liberator of the Liberator) by her lover Simón Bolívar after saving him from an assassination attempt in 1828.
Ecuador
This term, coined by the Combahee River Collective in 1977, describes a shift toward political alliances formed within a specific demographic rather than mass or class reductionist politics.
Identity Politics
Q: This wealthy 7th-century Arabian businesswoman is widely considered to be a protofeminist on account of using her financial resources and influence to sustain the early Muslim community after becoming the first convert to Islam and the first wife of the Prophet Muhammad.
Khadīja bint Khuwaylid
Q: These TWO singers claimed to be “Every Woman”-- one in the 1978 original recording, the other in a 1993 cover (must get both right)
A: A ready-to-wear fashion line launched in 2006 by Beyoncé and her mother, Tina Knowles.
House of Deréon (Deréon)
Marielle Franco, whose assassination sparked global protests in 2018, was a socialist councilwoman of this country named after its national tree
Brazil
The legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw coined this term to describe how overlapping systems of oppression shape Black women’s lives.
Intersectionality
Q: This scholar and suffragist wrote A Voice from the South, arguing that the progress of Black women was essential to the progress of the nation.
Anna Julia Cooper
Q: This Shanghai-born, Australian senator famously asserted “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
Irina Dunn