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We Celebrated Women’s Gains. We Also Need to Talk About What Is Being Eroded. There is a story we often tell about women’s progress. Women organized, laws changed, rape became …

For years, women were warned about the “date-rape drug.” Watch your drink. Don’t leave your glass unattended. Be careful if a stranger offers you something. None of that advice is …

  updated from March 23 2025 There is a familiar pattern in history. Women organize. Women speak. Women document harm. Women build shelters, create opportunities, change laws, and fight for …

You are allowed to have preferences that produce absolutely no social benefit whatsoever. Your personal life does not have to double as public service. There is not a single soul …

A man wanting access to a woman does not create a moral question for the woman. She can simply decline. At least we are getting closer to telling the truth …

updated from July 31, 2025 The Space Was Never the Argument. The Entitlement Was. Survivor Affirmation Every woman deserves a space that stays hers. Not conditional. Not negotiable. Not something …

Technology has given abusive people new ways to watch, follow and frighten women. Some of them are hiding in places you may not think to look. Leena noticed it at …

For decades, the murder of Kitty Genovese was told as a chilling lesson about human indifference: a young woman screamed for help while 38 neighbors watched from their windows and …

There are places in the world where women are screaming into a silence that should shame the rest of us. Haiti is one of them. Haiti is living through an extraordinary …

Yep. Women in every corner of life are being shunned for failing to center males. Even as people shout about “inclusion,” “tolerance,” and “kindness,” we are living in a heightened …