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“Are you a scorned woman?” Sen. Howell Heflin (D-AL) asked Anita Hill this question in October 1991. The moment was replayed in the documentary Sex and Justice. This was one of many outrageous questions he and other senators asked Hill during the Senate confirmation hearings of then-Supreme Court justice nominee Clarence Thomas to determine the [...]

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Twenty years ago this week, Professor Anita Hill testified about sexual harassment before the Senate Judiciary Committee during the confirmation hearings for then-Supreme Court justice nominee Clarence Thomas. Hill used to work for Thomas and felt it was her duty to share her experiences of sexual harassment in her workplace. In the end, Thomas was [...]

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Twenty years ago, Anita Hill courageously testified about workplace sexual harassment during the confirmation hearing of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Her testimony sent shock waves through the country and altered the way we view and deal with sexual harassment. Workplaces and schools now have sexual harassment policies, and while sexual harassment sadly still [...]

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Artist and 2009–10 AAUW Career Development Grantee Esy Casey was working in book design when her best friend, Sarah Friedland, asked her to help film a documentary on Zulu women’s experiences with HIV and AIDS. Though she had never worked a camera in a documentary context, Casey quit her job and began taking intensive classes [...]

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