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 …
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We Taught Gen Z About Consent. Did We Forget to Teach Them About Dignity?
I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way… You can agree to an experience without agreeing to be treated as disposable. The …
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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 someone else believes. Her mind is not public property, and her agreement is not a debt she owes. …
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The Fairytale Behind “Why Didn’t She Call the Police?”
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?” …
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Voyeurism Is Not Harmless: 20 Things to Know About Peeping Toms, Consent, Stalking, and Institutional Pressure
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 …
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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 living but had rarely been given room to discuss publicly: incest and childhood sexual abuse inside Black families. Crossing …
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When Someone Decides What You Will Be Called: Name Control as a Tactic of Abuse
Your name is one of the first things you learn belongs to you. That is exactly why controlling it can carry so much power. Sometimes an abusive person doesn’t merely …
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When Women Have to Soften the Language of Safety: 10 Ways Policing Women’s Words Can Undermine Sexual-Violence Prevention
And here our country stands examining every uttered word of a woman who says that she was harmed……. We all exist together on a planet that seeks to correct the …
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Healing Voices You Gotta Hear: Déjà Lewis-Nwalipenja on Black Girls and Sexual Violence
I want you to hear from Déjà Lewis-Nwalipenja. When she gave this TEDx talk, Déjà was a young Black college student studying political science and sociology. Her talk, Black Girls …
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Iyanla Vanzant: Abusive People Have a Way of Making You Feel it is All Love
Background and Vulnerability: She explains that she and her brother had been sent to stay with her aunt and uncle for what was intended to be a few weeks, …