Taylor Swift wrote "The Man" specifically to imagine how differently the world would treat her ambition if she moved through it as a man instead of a woman. Margaret Atwood built an entire novel, The Handmaid's Tale, around the same mechanics, tracing a patriarchal state that controls women's bodies through law and religious authority, and that novel has since generated a television adaptation running for six seasons. Greta Gerwig took a different approach with Barbie, using

As Women’s History Month comes to a close, I don’t find myself reaching for names in textbooks or distant figures cast in bronze. My thoughts stay here, rooted in Starr County, with someone who is still very much writing her place in history—one page at a time. This is for Maria Santos Salinas, Santitos, because what she represents is not just memory. It is Historia Viva. I’ll be honest, I come to this with bias. The kind that only exists when love and time have been woven to