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Violence & Harassment

When We Criticize Survivors, We Ignore Those Who Didn’t Survive

PUBLISHED 1/12/2018 by Jordannah Elizabeth

This conversation cannot wait, and this is certainly not the time to tear down anti-sexual harassment activists. We must keep moving forward—not pushing back. For women of color in particular, that is the only way to survive.

Our Sex Trafficking Laws Hurt Sexually Exploited Girls

PUBLISHED 1/11/2018 by Kate Price

A call to action on National Human Trafficking Awareness Day.

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#TimesUp on Period Stigma, Too

PUBLISHED 1/10/2018 by Jennifer Weiss-Wolf

As Hollywood opens the red carpet to social change—and celebrities and others open their wallets to the movement—here’s another hashtag to add to the mix: #MenstruationMatters.

Health

A New Kind of Birth Story

PUBLISHED 12/29/2017 by Golzar Selbe Naghshineh

Many women learn about parenthood philosophies so they can have the right parenting behaviors—but what hasn’t been encouraged is how to enter parenthood with the right emotional and psychological well-being.

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What Young Women Do Understand

PUBLISHED 12/22/2017 by Jennifer Mandelblatt

We aren’t sticking our fingers in our ears and screaming to drown out the noise—we are picking up the phones and posters and creating the noise.

Violence & Harassment

A Reflection on Two Femicides

PUBLISHED 12/21/2017 by Donna Johnson

Male dominion over women’s lives must stop. Institutional support for men’s violence must stop. Rape and sexual harassment must stop. It’s all connected and it all must stop.

Miscarriage of Justice: Arrested for Stillbirth

PUBLISHED 12/20/2017 by Molly Scott Cato

Rather than receiving the support of friends and family after her stillbirth, Teodora del Carmen Vásquez found herself surrounded by police officers. She could not afford a defense attorney. She was convicted of aggravated homicide and sentenced to 30 years in jail.

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To Pluck a Brown Feathered Goose: On Being a Woman of Color in National Security

PUBLISHED 12/20/2017 by Jeesue Lee and Brittney Washington

Breaking into the national security sector—and rising within it—is a daunting task for women of color. And that’s bad for everyone.

Community

You Too? Here’s What to Do

PUBLISHED 12/20/2017 by Marty Langelan

To stop a harasser in his tracks, interrupt his agenda with nonviolent direct action.

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Beyond a Hashtag

PUBLISHED 12/14/2017 by Laurie Adams

Our daughters deserve a world where they can be free, ambitious and brave. Our sons deserve a world where they don’t have to perform violent masculinity in order to be seen as “man enough.” In the wake of #MeToo, we must make this world a reality.

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