Victims Rights

  A girl changes her route home to avoid harassment. Another tells a doctor how much her period hurts and leaves feeling dismissed. A Black girl speaks up about how …

This series is about women asking pointed questions about our health, privacy, and safety, and expecting substantive answers. Who does this decision affect? What protections are in place? Who takes …

Wealth can travel through generations. So can the consequences of being denied it. Some people discover a deep concern for present-day human trafficking the moment Black people begin talking about …

Of course, her opponent believes that surviving rape as a child means that she is a flawed candidate……  Picture this. The last time you saw your mother, you were 12 …

There’s something I’ve been thinking about whenever the conversation turns to restricting pornography. I understand wanting to protect children from pornography. Children deserve protection from sexual exploitation and exposure to …

One thing about getting older and living through things is that you get to learn. If you choose to anyway.  Sometimes you learn lessons you never wanted to learn in …

Every so often, somebody starts a conversation about women changing their last names when they marry. And before long, people are making judgments about women abandoning their history, rejecting their …

There is a larger conversation we cannot afford to keep avoiding. Women who advocate for women’s rights and safety are frequently accused of being hateful, divisive, selfish, or unreasonable simply …

I’ll tell you this. What I admire about J.K. Rowling is that, no matter how often people threaten or slur her, she won’t back down. No matter how much wealth …

It isn’t hard for leaders to protect girls, but they have to act. To whom much is given, much is expected. We gotta start expecting more from leaders when it …