Rights for Mothers Blog Has a New Address
Rights for Mothers was a Top 100 blog. I cannot fathom why WordPress decided to “toss” it. The force behind the blog is extraordinarily well-informed on the issue of litigation abuse […]
Category Archives: Violence Against Women
What if it was your daughter?
“What if it was your daughter?” There isn’t a domestic violence or rape survivor who hasn’t asked this question. So many of us face callous indifference. We feel like the girl […]
Rape Survivor Confronts Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) Over Rape of Halliburton Employee in Iraq
“What if it was your daughter who was raped? Would you tell her to be quiet and take it? Would you tell your daughter to be silent?” A brave rape […]
V-Day Victories for Eve Ensler: Best Leader & Schwarzenegger Backs Down
Eve Ensler, playwright and founder of V-Day, was named one of America’s Best Leaders in 2009 by the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School and U.S. News Media […]
Bravo, Essence Magazine: Mary J. Blige Cover Story
Kudos to Essence Magazine for honoring October as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month! Their editors appreciate that 1.3 million women is a greater audience than 200,000. Their cover story about […]
Fuzzy Math: When Is 200,000 Greater than 1.3 Million?
In October. Advertising Age, the bible of advertisers and marketers in the US, has hundreds of articles about how linking a product to breast cancer awareness will boost sales. Their editors and subscribers […]
Minimizing Rape: Phillips, Letterman, and Polanski
Young girls and women who experience incest, sexual molestation, and sexual harassment carry scars that never, ever quite heal. We tell ourselves that the sex was consensual because we can’t […]
Pres. Obama Nominated Judge Susan B. Carbon as Director, Office on Violence Against Women, Dept. of Justice
On October 1, President Obama announced his intent to nominate Judge Susan B. Carbon (NH) to be the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women (VAW) in the Department of Justice (DoJ). […]
Where’s the Color Purple? October Is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
1.3 million women experience domestic violence each year. 200,000 are diagnosed with breast cancer. You’d think with such a staggering disparity in statistics that our world each October would be awash with the […]
Eve Ensler Takes the “Terminator” to School over Cuts to California’s DV Shelters
Eve Ensler’s got a way with words! She absolutely took “The Terminator,” California’s Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger, to school in today’s Huffington Post.
