Female Health and Safety

If someone can convince you that speaking about mistreatment is worse than the mistreatment itself, they have found a powerful way to protect those responsible. In 2017, when Chimamanda Ngozi …

When insulting women is considered entertainment, but women objecting is considered oversensitivity, the joke has become a lesson in whose dignity is negotiable. Viewers of American television are noticing that …

What I love about Octavia Spencer’s production direction of “The Lost Women of Highway 20” is that she intentionally spotlighted all the missed opportunities, when people chose not to listen …

Why women’s refusal, independence, and desire for safety are so often treated as offenses against men. There is something deeply troubling about a man hearing a woman say no and …

What happens when a generation of girls is expected to learn alongside boys who are being taught to regard them as lesser human beings? What female teachers are describing deserves …

A woman does not become hateful because she refuses to believe what someone else believes. Her mind is not public property, and her agreement is not a debt she owes. …

  Woman Lured Her ‘Baby-Daddy’’s Rape Accuser Into Kidnapping, Prosecutors Say · City Cast DC There is a fairytale version of society hiding behind the question, “Why didn’t she report?” …

Women have never needed permission to recognize ourselves as women. Our history didn’t begin with someone else’s willingness to acknowledge us. From the blueswomen of the 1920s to the voices of …

Why deliberately watching someone during private moments deserves to be taken seriously, even when there is no camera, no physical contact, and no recording. A woman is getting ready for …