female health civil rights

I saw this amazing woman speak at a conference, bought her book at a table there, and finished it in one night. Great book. LaVon Morris-Grant survived what could easily …

Melba Wilson wrote about something that Black women had certainly been living but had rarely been given room to discuss publicly: incest and childhood sexual abuse inside Black families. Crossing …

There is a familiar sentence that appears whenever violence against Black women becomes impossible to ignore: “Black women don’t talk.” Sometimes it is said with concern. Sometimes frustration. Sometimes it …

  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 …

There is a young Black woman at the center of the LSU sexual-assault story whose name is Kendall Francis. Before she became a viral video, a headline, a debate, or …

The research literature usually calls it nonconsensual condom removal (NCCR): removing a condom before or during sex without the other person’s consent. Researchers generally treat it as a violation of …

What makes this monologue so valuable is its examination of the person who learns to operate right along the boundary. Arabella describes “Bob” as someone who has paid attention to …

It will never stop amazing me that sooooooo many people believe that every sexual assault follows a “script”. We have no idea what happened but the fanfiction from people ready …

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 is a question people continue to ask victims of sexual violence: Why didn’t you go to the police? I have worked hotlines. I have responded to women who were …