Women learned through history that being somewhere inside the word ‘everyone’ is not the same as being named, counted, or protected Some women feel a particular uneasiness when language about …
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When Men Encourage Boundary Violations, Women Pay the Price
updated from June 7 2025 Why It’s Wrong—And Sometimes Criminal—for Men to Overrule a Woman’s “No” In every corner of society—online and offline—there’s a dangerous pattern we must name: Men …
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IF “We” Are Standing Against the Killing of Children, Women Would Like to See That Principle Everywhere
Sometimes men speak as though women are surprised when men take a strong moral position about the death of children, particularly in conversations about abortion or a mother who kills …
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Frequency Is Not Permission: The Dangerous Math We Do With Women and Girls
Frequency tells us how often harm happens. It does not tell us how much harm we should be willing to accept. I have finally found the words for something I …
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Women Have Been Violently Punished for Telling the Truth for Centuries
I do not owe anyone a smaller truth so they can maintain a larger lie. Absolutely no woman deserves to be harmed because she spoke a truth somebody did not …
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Katoucha Niane: Her Beauty Made Headlines. Her Courage Deserves History.
There are some women whose photographs become famous while the most important thing they did receives far less attention. Katoucha Niane was one of them. Born in Guinea in 1960, …
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They Knew Her Face. In 1997, Waris Dirie Made Them Hear Her Story.
In 1997, Waris Dirie did something that deserves to be remembered as an act of extraordinary courage. She spoke. She was already an internationally known model. People knew her face. …
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When Black Women Speak About Violence, Too Many People Attack the Voice Instead of the Harm
Now streaming on Amazon Prime There is something very familiar happening around Is God Is. (The Color Purple? Eve’s Bayou? Is that you?) A Black woman creates a story about violence, …
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Not Every Ugly Moment Is Abuse: Why Survivors Need Us to Keep Our Language Precise
I happened upon a story on social media recently about a long marriage. It was the kind of family story many of us recognize. Two people loved each other, disagreed, …
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Beautiful Before Anyone Gave Permission: Remembering Victoria Santa Cruz
I went to grade school with a girl who might put you on the mind of the loveliness of Nina Simone or Victoria Santa Cruz. People were extremely cruel to …