By Emily Blobaum, Fearless editor More than 1.4 million adults in the U.S. identify as transgender. Many want to receive gender affirmation care, but can’t afford it. One new Iowa mutual aid organization is trying to change that. Earlier this year, Max Mowitz, who is the program director at One Iowa, and Read more…
By Emily Blobaum, Fearless editor Last month, Business Record Editor Emily Barske spoke with LaNisha Cassell, executive director of the African American Museum of Iowa, about the topic of confidence. Below are highlights. On what confidence means: “For me it’s understanding and valuing what my strengths and capabilities are and Read more…
Takeaways from theSkimm’s “Back to ‘Normal’ Power Panel” By Emily Blobaum, Fearless editor Last month, theSkimm co-founders and co-CEOs Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg hosted a virtual panel about what the return to normal needs to look like for working women. Panelists were Tina Tchen, now ex-president and CEO of Read more…
By Seeta Mangra-Stubbs, founder and CEO, Whole Damn Woman Please do me a favor. List the things that make you or would make you feel confident in your body, your intellectual abilities, your skills, your family – anything you value. Your list need not be a certain length, and it’s Read more…
By Emily Blobaum, Fearless editor Earlier this month, The 19th – a national nonprofit news organization that covers the intersections of gender, politics and policy – hosted its annual virtual summit. More than 50 speakers, including Billie Jean King, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Commerce Secretary Gina Read more…
By Emily Blobaum Cheltzie Miller-Bailey had big dreams when she was young – she would have her doctorate by age 30 and would become a CEO someday. Growing up in West Des Moines’ Valley Junction neighborhood in a single-parent family that lived below the poverty line, she thought that those Read more…
By Brooke Westphalen (she/her/hers), development and communications coordinator Editor’s note: Gender-specific language is used in some instances as a reflection of statistics shared and the women-centered focus of the Fearless publication. When possible, “youth” is used to be more inclusive. The author recognizes that not all people who menstruate identify as girls or Read more…
BY EMILY BLOBAUM, FEARLESS EDITOR Around the same time that Emily Steele left her job working for a community development nonprofit to get FemCity Des Moines off the ground, the state of Iowa found itself at the bottom of the list of women-owned businesses. In fact, in 2015, Iowa was ranked dead last Read more…
By Barbara Burke, deputy director of athletics, senior women’s administrator at the University of Iowa Women helping women! I am certain most women in leadership positions have either used or heard this phrase. While I am an absolute proponent of women helping women, I like to take it one step Read more…
By Emily Blobaum, Fearless editor On July 15, more than 36 million families across the U.S. began receiving the first round of child tax credit payments. We spoke with nonprofit leaders and one Iowa family on what the credit will mean for middle- and low-income households in the state. Background Read more…