Category: female health civil rights

When Women’s Rights Become Criminal Complaints: The Case of Marguerite Stern and Dora Moutot
A woman does not become hateful because she refuses to believe what so [...]

Women Have Been Restricted for Safety for Generations. Why Does Restricting Men Sound So Radical?
There are renewed calls to ask a question American colleges have heard [...]

The Exception Man: New Vocabulary Does Not Change the Reality of Male Violence
"It was 'that' kind of man who harmed you, not this kind." But how can [...]

The Redirection Trap: How Conversations About Women Get Hijacked (And How to Spot It)
Remember when the Supreme Court of the United States [...]

He Had Threatened Her Before: 10 Survivor Lessons from LaVon Morris-Grant’s Whom Shall I Fear
I saw this amazing woman speak at a conference, bought her book at a t [...]

10 Lessons for Survivors from Melba Wilson’s Crossing the Boundary: Black Women Survive Incest
Melba Wilson wrote about something that Black women had certainly been [...]

Before We Ask Why Black Women Don’t Talk, We Need to Ask What Happens When They Do
There is a familiar sentence that appears whenever violence against Bl [...]

Men Already Have More Access to Women Than Ever. Why Is the Answer Still “Give Men More”?
There is something missing from a great deal of our modern con [...]

Things to Understand About the LSU Sexual Assault Case, and the Young Black Woman at the Center of It
There is a young Black woman at the center of the LSU sexual-assault s [...]

10 Things to Know About the Crime of Stealthing featuring MadameNoire
The research literature usually calls it nonconsensual condom removal [...]