Category: Female Health and Safety

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 muc [...]

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 li [...]

Katoucha Niane: Her Beauty Made Headlines. Her Courage Deserves History.
There are some women whose photographs become famous while the most im [...]

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 a [...]

When Black Women Speak About Violence, Too Many People Attack the Voice Instead of the Harm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsk8VmR4KCANow streaming on Ama [...]

Women, We Are Not Asking for Special Treatment. We Are Asking to Be Treated.
There is something particularly sad about a woman becoming one of the [...]

“Lead with Love” Includes Women and Girls Safety Too (short audio message)
Lead with LoveThat's what they say.And when they do, never let [...]

They’d Say You Asked For It: The Cost of a Woman’s Truth in a World That Loves a Lie
When you watch Thelma & Louise, you aren’t just watching a [...]

When Women Call for Help—and the System Does Not See Someone Worth Protecting
We are nowhere close to being able to collapsing women's issues into t [...]

Keep Your Eye on Jonah Wheeler: The Young Democrat Asking His Party to Think Again
Every so often, a politician appears who is interesting not because yo [...]