Girls

  There are many ways to hide violence. A locked door will do it. So will money, shame, family loyalty, professional prestige, religious authority, fear and a community determined not …

updated from March 24 2025   Interesting fact: Before his murders were discovered, serial killer Ted Bundy volunteered at a suicide crisis hotline in Seattle called the Seattle Crisis Clinic in 1971. The …

Women have spent generations being told to sit back and relax while somebody else decided where the road was going. Some of us like to see the map.  Of course …

In the real world, on this planet we live on, the female-sexed body may have to navigate menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, sexual vulnerability, intimate medical care, privately undressing, religious practice …

Sometimes men speak as though women are surprised when men take a strong moral position about the death of children, particularly in conversations about abortion or a mother who kills …

Frequency tells us how often harm happens. It does not tell us how much harm we should be willing to accept. I have finally found the words for something I …

In 1997, Waris Dirie did something that deserves to be remembered as an act of extraordinary courage. She spoke. She was already an internationally known model. People knew her face. …

I went to grade school with a girl who might put you on the mind of the loveliness of Nina Simone or Victoria Santa Cruz. People were extremely cruel to …

There is a reason people cling so tightly to labels when harm is exposed. Often, it is not confusion. It is fear. Fear of admitting they were misled. Fear of …

They tell me that I have despised being told what to do since I was a baby. I LOVE learning. Those are two different things, and sometimes, depending on who …