"What happens in between where my sons are now and where some men end up? I see someone like Brett Kavanaugh—sputtering, denying, entitled, angry—and I wonder how to guide my babies toward kindness instead of abuse, gratefulness instead of take, take, take, mine, mine, mine."

Biswas, a bespectacled women’s health activist with black hair and silver roots, is on a mission: a fact-finding mission to save women’s lives. 'I come from a very simple village, but I’m fearless,' she says.

Some have grumbled that too much has been made of Williams as a mother. Many of the big players of men’s tennis— Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray—have small children, but no one frames their matches as battles between fathers. Yet Williams has insisted on this emphasis herself—and not only in the delight that she’s seemed to take from her daughter on social media. She has publicly embraced her role as a mother, and not as a perfect one, either. As I watched her wobble through her early matches back on tour, streaming them on my iPad as I nursed my own child, I thought to myself, She is also still trying to figure things out.

Biles is the most decorated American gymnast in US history, and recently became the first woman to win five national all-around titles. Biles revealed she wore a self-designed teal outfit on Sunday night at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships to stand for gymnasts who were abused by former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, of which she is one. Teal is the designated color for sexual abuse survivors.

For equality to happen, we have to rebalance the scales, which means more women calling the shots—telling their own stories, controlling the narrative, joining and, yes, even dominating the conversation. After all, the problem isn’t that we don’t know women exist. The problem is that women’s lives and worth are still controlled and defined by men. It’s men who decide which issues matter, who counts as a “great artist,” whose story is worth listening to.