Author Archives

• Telling #MyStory Saved My Life

  By Guest on September 29, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  *Trigger warning for sexual violence* When I was 13, the summer after 8th grade, I was raped on a college campus by a 21-year-old college student. I was attending a summer camp and he was a camp counselor. A campus… Read More ›

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• An Experiment in Catcalling

  By Guest on September 18, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  I’ve always thought walking down the street should be a peaceful affair. For the longest time I couldn’t figure out why I was so angry at all the “attention” I was getting outside. It was only until I started talking… Read More ›

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• The Legal Field is Rife with Sexual Harassment. This is My Story.

  By Guest on August 27, 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  It started out innocently enough. A fellow attorney asked me to perform some contract work for him, and I agreed. I completed the work to the other attorney’s satisfaction and awaited the remaining payment due to me. A month or… Read More ›

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• FIFA Unlevels the Playing Field for Women with Artificial Turf

  By Guest on August 26, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  FIFA’s acceptance of the use of artificial turf for the 2015 Women’s World Cup in Canada has created an intense backlash from professional women’s soccer players worldwide. Abby Wambach, captain of and a forward on the US National Team, is… Read More ›

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• My Sexual Violence Journey: I Refuse to be Invisible

  By Guest on August 21, 2014 • ( 8 )

  

  I speak to people all over the country about sexual assault and relationship violence, and what we can do to stop it. I speak a lot about empowering women and girls and helping survivors heal after trauma. I share the… Read More ›

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• Take Action: Help Save Casa Myrna’s Teen Parenting Program

  By Guest on August 12, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  It’s not easy being a teen parent. Pregnant and parenting teens must tackle the many challenges of parenthood while facing the persistent negative judgment and stigma that’s still so widely associated with teen parenthood. As a result, many teen parents… Read More ›

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• This Review of a Book That Contains a Sex Assault Confession Was Banned From Amazon.com

  By Guest on August 7, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  TRIGGER WARNING: This article and pages it links to contains information about sexual assault and violence which may be triggering to survivors. This afternoon, I got lost in an internet rabbit hole. Someone “followed” me on WordPress, so I clicked… Read More ›

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• Raj Shetye Fashion Shoot Trivializes Sexual Assault

  By Guest on August 6, 2014 • ( 6 )

  

  Note: This article originally appeared at Brown Girl Magazine. Last week, Bombay fashion photographer, Raj Shetye, released a series of photographs titled “The Wrong Turn.” As you can see from the photos below, it is a series of shots featuring… Read More ›

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• In McCullen, Supreme Court Demonstrates Ignorance of What Really Happens Outside Women’s Health Clinics

  By Guest on June 26, 2014 • ( 6 )

  

  For months, I’ve been talking to fellow pro-choice activists in New York City about whether we could get a buffer zone passed here. There was a pretty solid consensus: we could do this, but we should wait for a decision… Read More ›

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• Porn, Sexual Over-Stimulation and American Consumer Culture

  By Guest on June 2, 2014 • ( 10 )

  

  Carl’s Jr. clearly doesn’t trust its burgers to sell themselves. For several years now, the fast-food chain has distracted its customers from the gray, questionably-sourced meat on its menu with a different sort of flesh, that of scantily clad models… Read More ›

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