Washington D.C.: Holly Kearl, author of Stop Street Harassment: Making Public Places Safe and Welcoming for Women and Mandy Van Deven, co-author of Hey, Shorty!: A Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment and Violence in Schools and on the Streets will be in D.C. for a discussion of their books, followed by a book signing. Monday, […]
V, formerly Eve Ensler
V, formerly Eve Ensler, is a Tony Award-winning playwright, performer and activist. She is best known for her play The Vagina Monologues. Her nonprofit, V-Day, raises money and educates the public about violence against women and efforts to stop it.
South Africa’s Subversive SlutWalk
In 2008 hundreds of South African women donned their miniskirts and protested at the taxi rank where a young girl was brutally accosted by taxi drivers and hawkers for wearing a short denim skirt. The men who accosted her allegedly stuck their fingers into her vagina and called her a “slut.” Women were outraged. The […]
1,100 Congolese Women Raped Each Day: I Am Over It
Here’s what I Am Over 400 thousand women getting raped a year in the Democratic Republic of Congo 48 women getting raped an hour 1,100 raped a day I Am Over This being new/news. The world responding to these statistics as if it’s the first time they ever heard anything about the atrocities in the […]