What are RIGHTS, anyway?

Human rights, legal rights, constitutional rights, unalienable rights…
Some people think we have too many, some think we don’t have enough. What we know for sure, we want them and we need them - it’s how we ensure fairness.

This project looks at the idea of rights through a female lens. The way we use them, and how things might be different without them.

In earlier projects we focused on women’s suffrage and the importance of women supporting women. This time around, women share how their lives have been shaped by the way we see and interpret rights. We seek to illustrate the importance of all rights, even those at odds with a personal philosophy. Whether it’s legally using birth control as a married woman (1965), filing for divorce (1969), running the Boston Marathon (1972), legally using birth control as a single woman (1972), sexual harassment as a form of job discrimination (1986), owning a business without a male co-signer (1988), or same-sex marriage (2015), a woman’s sense of agency demands every right be protected.

We hope these interviews move you, and make you think about how all rights matter.

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