Feminism through culture, policy and law.

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Feminism through culture, policy and law.

Ashleigh Mazivisa 6/15/26 Ashleigh Mazivisa 6/15/26

Women at work: The Crown Act and black women's hair at work

The Crown stands for Creates, a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair.

Ashleigh Mazivisa 6/7/26 Ashleigh Mazivisa 6/7/26

Women at work: navigating discrimination

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Civil Rights Act of 1991

Ashleigh Mazivisa 5/30/26 Ashleigh Mazivisa 5/30/26

Intersectionality - when gender, race and class meet

In 1976, five black women sued General Motors for discrimination. They had been denied jobs in a division that had never hired black women, though they had hired white women and black men.

Ashleigh Mazivisa 5/23/26 Ashleigh Mazivisa 5/23/26

The system of power has a map. Let's decode it.

The system of power has a map.Let's decode it

The intricacy of the matrix is that its architects deploy both systemic and interpersonal forms of oppression, that is, institutions and individuals, policy and behavior, law and language. They are all reinforcing the same hierarchy.

Ashleigh Mazivisa 5/16/26 Ashleigh Mazivisa 5/16/26

Patriarchy, Disaggregated

A breakdown of the architecture of patriarchy to analyze feminism, we need to understand the foundation of gender hierarchy.

Ashleigh Mazivisa 5/8/26 Ashleigh Mazivisa 5/8/26

Built to last - The mechanics of domination

In order to analyze feminism, we need to understand the foundation of gender hierarchy.

Society has always had something to say about women. Here, we say something back.

Said Differently is an analysis of feminism through law, policy, and culture, written for everyone who deserves to understand it. Because the frameworks exist to describe what women experience with precision and weight. They just aren’t widely known. That’s what this is for.

I created Said Differently because language matters. The words we use to describe what happens to women shape whether those experiences are taken seriously, redressed, or erased entirely. Imprecise language obscures harm. The right language makes it undeniable.

I’m a student at Harvard University and Dartmouth, and I’ve spent most of my life moving between continents, cultures, and contexts. This means I’ve spent most of my life watching the same things happen to women, seeing them described differently depending on where you are, and dismissed regardless. That experience is what brought me to feminist theory, and what keeps me here.

Author: Ashleigh Mazivisa