There was no violence, but there was also no communication, love, or respect. There was no mutual or reciprocal understanding. Most importantly, there was no consent. Trigger warning – description of sexual assault I was 18. It was the night before Thanksgiving. My friends and I reunited for the first time since we had started […]
Being successful at work or having a family is not a choice. In my many discussions about the need for women’s leadership and empowerment I frequently hear some version of the “choice argument.” It’s based on the belief that women on their own freely select circumstances leading to less money, less success, less leadership, and less power. […]
Every activist knows that taking a stand for something you believe in is hard but admirable. But living continually in defense of that position you’ve taken can feel like an unending social crucifixion. Once upon a time there was an earnest young woman who spent her childhood locked away inside a fundamentalist, patriarchal religion. When she finally […]
“Redefining what it means to be a good family may be the social justice fight of my generation. It will never be realistic or reasonable to expect people to marry themselves out of poverty. More important, no one should have to,” says Role Reboot’s founder and editor-in-chief Nicole Rodgers. Read the rest of her piece, […]
Toy manufacturers and games developers are profiting from the creation of discriminatory imagined worlds where the segregation, objectification, and erasure of women is being mass produced for fun. In 2014, Hasbro, one of the world’s largest and most influential toy makers, was named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, recognized for going “beyond making […]
A lot of people will try to define you, put you in a box, label you, limit you, in the years to come. Every day you can choose to defy their definitions. This Friday I’m going to Wisconsin to attend a coming of age ceremony for the 14-year-old daughter of a long-time friend of mine. When […]
A highly skilled work force to drive our economic engine is only possible when people have the care, education, and health they need. International Women’s Day earlier this month saw an outpouring of social media about the status of women in the world, which varies greatly across countries and continents. Here in the U.S., women occupy […]
It’s a risky business move, but Starbucks sees it as an ethical and moral imperative, which is respectable. Earlier this week, Starbucks announced an initiative to start a conversation on race and racism in their stores. The idea is simple: Allow Starbucks workers the opportunity to initiate conversations with customers about race by writing the […]
