Consent

  There is something missing from a great deal of our modern conversation about men, women, loneliness, relationships, and belonging. We rarely acknowledge just how much access to women’s presence …

updated from September 26 2025 Abusers call what they do to women and children by many names. They dress it up with lies, excuses, and false respectability. They label it …

  There are things we understand perfectly well until sexual violence enters the conversation. We understand vulnerability perfectly well when property is involved   Suppose someone gets drunk at a …

“Nobody is telling you whom you must sleep with.” “But if you exclude certain people from your sexual or dating pool, your exclusion may reveal prejudice, bigotry, or a phobia.” …

Consent is not only the right to say yes. It is the freedom to say no without punishment, persuasion, or a campaign to change your mind. Consent is not only …

There is an age when “Why?” is one of the sweetest and most exhausting words in the English language. Why is the sky blue? Why do dogs bark? Why do …

Who benefits when women are encouraged to understand their sexual boundaries as especially open to revision? Women have spent a great deal of history being told that their own sexual …

There are conversations we keep having because somewhere along the way, simple human freedoms became strangely difficult to say out loud. A woman can say no. She can say no …

Human dignity should be universal. Sexual access should never be. We reached the part of this discourse where Rosa Parks was invoked to infer that women are like white supremacists …

  updated from March 23 2025 There is a familiar pattern in history. Women organize. Women speak. Women document harm. Women build shelters, create opportunities, change laws, and fight for …