Female Health and Safety

As an advocate, you find that women are often relieved to talk with someone about the “red flags” we might ignore because we aren’t sure whether we’re being too harsh …

Something strange is happening in the advice women are being given. We are living through an extraordinary period of sophisticated fraud. Government agencies routinely warn us about romance scammers, fake …

updated from November 7, 2023 Some advocates for women and girls are not pleased with how we are talking about strangulation. Strangulation is often viewed as a very casual thing …

originally published in 2025 There is a dangerous lie being whispered and shouted in this world:That a woman is a feeling.That our existence—our lives, our flesh, our blood, our history—is …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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. …