For the past several years, Evan Rachel Wood has been championing the Phoenix Act—a bill which, if passed, would allow for special considerations in cases of sexual assault to extend the statute of limitations for victims to file charges.
Author: Sarah Alexander
Sarah Samantha Alexander is a writer, actor, and musician from Los Angeles, CA. She attempts
to use visual and performative arts to spark meaningful conversation about social and political
activism. She currently teaches Special Education for the Los Angeles Unified School District.
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This is Not Your Typical Love Letter: An Abortion Story
“This is Not a Love Letter” conveys with an impunative honesty writer Isabel Pask’s own experience soliciting an abortion in the U.S.
“I wrote this for the people who have had this experience,” Pask told Ms. “To let them know that, even though we’re not talking about it, you are absolutely not alone.”
Drawing the (Picket) Line: Inside the Fight for Public Education Funding in Los Angeles
“I miss my kids,” Samantha Barnea, a third grade teacher at Noble Avenue Elementary in North Hills, California, told Ms., “but I’m doing this for them.”