updated from January 2026 I’ve served the women who responded to violence and were facing harsher punishment than any man would have for the same crime. No one was willing…
updated from June 13, 2025 Women and girls in Sudan are facing unspeakable violence—sexual violence used as a weapon of war, mass displacement, and ethnic cleansing. These are not isolated…
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…
Identity is not a shield. A label is not a character reference. A man can be kind in public and entitled in private. A man can understand oppression and still…
Beautiful Brazil. A country that, like many others, has a long way to go when it comes to how it treats the women and girls who are its citizens. Women…
updated from December 13, 2025 FGM victims’ fury as academics compare practice to cosmetic surgery Any honest critique of global efforts to address female genital mutilation must begin here: Girls’…
The people carrying the pain and the burdens are often the people least heard Those with the most protection do not get to dictate the survival choices of those who…
When a group has been treated as property, their boundaries are never automatically recognized —they have to be asserted, defended, and reasserted across generations. That takes energy and labor. …
“I’ve never seen or heard of anything like this!” Black people have been telling the truth about violence for a long time. Not for attention. Not for spectacle.…
With war, comes murder and rape Pornography is often blamed as the reason violence—especially violence against women—has escalated. That sounds clean. It sounds decisive. It feels like an answer. But history…