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Though Title IX has existed for over 50 years, women still must fight for equity.
One generation of women from Hawaii after another — from Congresswoman Patsy Mink to high school water polo athlete Ashley Badis — has been at the forefront of this battle for gender equity in schools.
Long Lead’s new feature TITLE WAVES unpacks the fight of a high school girls' water polo team in Hawaii, who sued the state for unequal treatment after they were forced to practice in the Pacific Ocean when their school failed to secure practice space for them.
Read it today to learn more.
In honor of Title IX month, @longlead.com has a gorgeous, inspiring story of two Hawaiian women who—50 years apart—fought for equality in education and sports.
Under the Trump administration, the tide has turned on Title IX. Read TITLE WAVES and learn (or remember) what this landmark law is about.
For this week's DEPTH PERCEPTION, @ParkerMolloy.com gets insights from Cross about TITLE WAVES, the act of "taking one for the team," and the hopes Cross has for its impact.
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In TITLE WAVES, Cross tells the story of high school athlete Ashley Badis and A.B. v. Hawaii State Department of Education, the landmark Title IX class action lawsuit the girls filed, and what came of it. In it, she braids in the history of Title IX, authored by trailblazing Congresswoman Patsy Mink
Honor Mink, Badis, and all the generations of courageous women who fought for their rights by reading TITLE WAVES and learning what Title IX means to women across the U.S. title-waves.longlead.com
Despite being an athlete and coach herself, sports writer Kim Cross recalls she was "ignorant about Title IX" before reporting Long Lead's new feature TITLE WAVES. The journalist now shares she wants "to empower [girls and women] to understand their rights and how to fight for them."
In a time where the Trump administration has turned the political tide against the landmark law, weaponizing Title IX against people and institutions it’s seeking to curb, resources are being diverted from its enforcement as it was originally intended by trailblazing Congresswoman Patsy Mink.
The president has issued multiple executive orders concerning gender and enforced them through Title IX investigations, impacting countless women like Ashley Badis and her teammates, who didn't know they had rights to equal opportunity in education before their fight for their water polo team began.
In TITLE WAVES, Long Lead's new feature that's out today, narrative journalist Kim Cross reports on how two Hawaiian women — 50 years apart — leveled the playing field for women in education.
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Battling intense grief, the narrative journalist couldn’t abandon reporting Long Lead’s latest feature “Title Waves.” It’s about decades of brave women who refused to quit.
In "Title Waves," the latest feature from Long Lead, Kim Cross reports how two courageous Hawaiian women, nearly 50 years apart, fought for equality and won.
In a landmark Title IX athletics case, high school girls sued for fairness and won systematic change — not just for their team but throughout Hawaii, and for generations to come — by forcing the state to keep score.
