Women’s Rights

There is a conversation we need to have about loneliness, dating, sex, companionship and rejection. A grown one. Because loneliness is real. Wanting love is real. Wanting somebody to come …

You are allowed to have preferences that produce absolutely no social benefit whatsoever. Your personal life does not have to double as public service. There is not a single soul …

What happens when somebody else has the institutional power to decide what kind of woman you are—and the power to punish you when you refuse to obey? In 1898, Omaha …

A man wanting access to a woman does not create a moral question for the woman. She can simply decline. At least we are getting closer to telling the truth …

When Her No Becomes the “Problem” As a woman, this is fascinating. Male privilege is amazing. I was a single mom, and there were men who wouldn’t date me. Men …

We can defend someone’s right to wear the dress without pretending the dress is what makes a woman. There is a very simple place where many of us can meet. …

You see these movements getting furious with Black women for not asking “how high” because they snapped their fingers? Knowing your worth is not about believing you are better than …

Women did not struggle for generations to gain the right to choose only to discover that we are still expected to choose whatever keeps everybody else comfortable. Our piece on …

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 …

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 …