Rape

For years, women were warned about the “date-rape drug.” Watch your drink. Don’t leave your glass unattended. Be careful if a stranger offers you something. None of that advice is …

Human dignity should be universal. Sexual access should never be. We reached the part of this discourse where Rosa Parks was invoked to infer that women are like white supremacists …

There are places in the world where women are screaming into a silence that should shame the rest of us. Haiti is one of them. Haiti is living through an extraordinary …

Well, actually…they’ve been asking for help for awhile. At some point we as a global family can deal with why their cries have gone unheard, including the fact that larger …

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 …

Submission is not always announced by the word “submit.” Sometimes submission arrives dressed in the moral vocabulary of its era. Yesterday it might have been obey your husband. Today it might …

There is a dangerous mistake societies make about women. They mistake endurance for endlessness. A woman survives something on Monday, gets up on Tuesday, feeds somebody, goes to work, tends …

When you watch Thelma & Louise, you aren’t just watching a movie; you’re watching a masterclass in how society sets up a trap for a woman before she even opens …

Her name was Marzieh Nieri. She was 23 years old. Marzieh said she fought back when a man attempted to sexually assault her. The man died from his injuries. Iranian …

For generations, women fought to move the line forward: toward safety, freedom, education, economic independence, bodily autonomy, and the right to move through the world without asking permission. But progress …