Power

A woman’s body is not simply a smaller version of a man’s body. We are not nonmen with bonus accessories. We are a distinct sex class. They despise females from …

We have got to stop treating the violent crossing of human boundaries as a ‘lapse in judgment.’ You don’t accidentally break into a woman’s peace; some choose to dominate it. …

  We must have wisdom in our voting and political process. We live in a society that hungers for things adjacent to the new and the young. That’s beautiful. That’s …

So today we are in the state of Washington because their Department of Corrections has interesting policies that impact women. Language control determines which words institutions permit us to use, …

    The issue is not that women are unknowable to the state. It’s that women are often known only in fragments that are useful for administration—risk, dependency, vulnerability, compliance—while …

updated from June 2025 This history is not symbolic. It is specific, embodied, and carried forward through language. For many Black American women, forced renaming has never been a side …

Some of us were never told that we deserved to feel safe.We were told to keep going.To be strong.To not make a scene.To forgive.To forget.To move on. So we did.We …

The recent UK review that found serial rapists and offenders remained in policing despite serious warning signs and vetting failures. Which got me thinking:   In the U.S., one felony domestic …

“Will a highly neutral parentage framework be sensitive enough to recognize unequal power, violence, coercion, reproductive abuse, and sexual assault?” If institutions are going to look women in the face …

  One of the most dangerous assumptions in the world is believing that if a woman does not openly object, she must be okay with what is happening. Many women …