Category: Politics

It’s Not About Sex: How Rape Culture Actually Works (video)
Rape culture isn't about sex. This video is about the everyday beh [...]

Victimization, Victimhood, and the Right to Keep Naming What Happened
Victimized vs. Victimization
Victimization describes an experience, a [...]

Marcia Johnson Told Them She Was Afraid: Why Everyone Needs to Understand the Dynamics of Domestic Violence (Part 1)
There are cases that remind us why understanding domestic violence can [...]

Your Right to Choose Depends on Your Right to Know: When Romantic Deception Interferes with Consent
Which facts may another person deliberately falsify while seeking some [...]

When Personal Expression Becomes Women’s Required Participation: What Exactly Are Institutions Asking Women to Do?
There is a difference between allowing another human being freedom and [...]

Congo Is Asking the World to Look: 7 Devastating Truths About Sexual Violence in the DRC
Well, actually...they've been asking for help for awhile. At some poin [...]

The Apology Is Too Cheap: Black People Deserve More Than Corporate “Sorry”
This is suicide awareness month. Black people are being found dead and [...]

Why Does Everyone Want Women to Prove Their Kindness by Becoming Less Protected?
Some people do not ask you to understand them. The [...]

If You Love Us, Why Are You Fighting for the Right to Hurt Us?
Harm does not always arrive announcing itself as hatred. Sometimes it [...]

Before Black German Feminism Had a Name, Fasia Jansen Was Already Fighting
What does political resistance look like when the movement that might [...]