Violation

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 …

In the real world, on this planet we live on, the female-sexed body may have to navigate menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, sexual vulnerability, intimate medical care, privately undressing, religious practice …

As an advocate, you find that women are often relieved to talk with someone about the “red flags” we might ignore because we aren’t sure whether we’re being too harsh …

When violence against women becomes visible as a pattern, men who possess some socially valued characteristic have repeatedly had an avenue for saying, in effect, “You cannot mean men like me.” …

Something strange is happening in the advice women are being given. We are living through an extraordinary period of sophisticated fraud. Government agencies routinely warn us about romance scammers, fake …

If we can take our eyes off the individual women long enough to study the system around her. We might finally see who has been moving the walls. I don’t …

Women learned through history that being somewhere inside the word ‘everyone’ is not the same as being named, counted, or protected Some women feel a particular uneasiness when language about …

updated from June 7 2025 Why It’s Wrong—And Sometimes Criminal—for Men to Overrule a Woman’s “No” In every corner of society—online and offline—there’s a dangerous pattern we must name: Men …

I do not owe anyone a smaller truth so they can maintain a larger lie. Absolutely no woman deserves to be harmed because she spoke a truth somebody did not …

There are some women whose photographs become famous while the most important thing they did receives far less attention. Katoucha Niane was one of them. Born in Guinea in 1960, …