“I’m Living in a Sacrifice Zone” — Women Speak Out for Climate Justice
WECAN co-founder and Executive Director Osprey Orielle Lake noted, “How we treat the earth is how we treat women. It’s a violent paradigm.”
Category: Women’s Issues
Emily May Gives a Hollaback! Against Street Harassment
Emily May offered, “Street harassment will be with us a long as there are streets. It’s as old as the hills.”
Campus SaVE Act Responds to College Campus Sexual Violence
There is an important backstory to the fight for protecting students from sexual violence. It dates back to 1986, when 19-year-old student Jeanne Clery was raped and murdered in her dormitory room at Lehigh University.
Feminist Stories From Women’s Liberation: 1963-1970
Lee’s film yields a “complex and multilayered” account which she hopes will instruct her daughter, and future generations of girls, about the struggle that preceded them.
Paula Modersohn-Becker: The First Modern Woman Artist
It is Radycki’s premise that Modersohn-Becker was a “pioneer and groundbreaker,” one of the key early German modernists—the “missing piece in the history of modernist imagery.”
Redefining Cancer Survivorship
June 2 is National Cancer Survivors Day. For Karen Shayne and Judy Pearson, co-founders of the Women Survivors Alliance, it is also an opportunity to galvanize others to their 365 days-a-year mission. Shayne and...
Eve Ensler’s “Emotional Creature” Speaks the Language of Girls
Ensler’s hope and goal is for each individual girl to “empower her authentic self.”
Another Look at Thyroid Shields and Mammograms
After numerous interviews, I learned why thyroid shields were not needed. In fact, they were considered a detriment to the mammogram process.
Domestic Violence: Everybody’s Issue
It is essential to go beyond the statistics to place Domestic Violence within a larger societal framework.
Naming the Shame That Can Cripple
“The more people come out and talk about shame, the less power it has.”
