Twenty years after the genocide in Rwanda, Pieter Hugo, a photographer, visited and documented efforts of reconciliation between Hutu and Tutsi individuals following the Rwanda…
Nirvana’s song “Polly” is about a 14-year-old girl who was kidnapped after attending their concert in Tacoma, Washington. The man who abducted her, Gerald Friend, raped…
“My name is Will, and I think rape is hilarious…when it happens to a dude,” begins the monologue in a recently posted video written and…
This poetry slam by Neil Hilborn and Ollie Renee Schminkey is a fascinating duet about the difficulties and traumas they both experienced in their relationships. Touching…
“Shrinking Women” by Lily Myers tells a story of women in her family who have been taught to shrink for generations while the men grew. Her…
Claiming that mainstream porn is in the business of “making hate,” sociology and women’s studies professor Gail Dines at Wheelock College, Boston, has been a…
On August 11th, 2012 in Steubenville, Ohio, two high school football players kicked off the beginning of the season with a night of partying, drinking,…
In 2009, Zukiswa Gaca, a 20-year-old lesbian woman in South African, decided to take her own life by laying down on the local train tracks…
By: Maya Angelou The free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wings in…
