Take Action on Birth Control

by | Dec 5, 2013 | Blog

Birth control coverage is in serious danger and worse, most people haven’t even heard about the latest threat. Share this info-graphic. Last week the Supreme Court decided to take on a case that could let employers deny birth control coverage to their...

I call. You’re stone. One day you’ll look and find I’m gone.

by | Jun 4, 2013 | Blog, Media Exploitation Gallery

Poetry Magazine’s Landays: Poetry of Afghan Women http://bit.ly/12raltn I call. You’re stone. One day you’ll look and find I’m gone. The teenage poet who uttered this folk poem called herself Rahila Muska. She lived in Helmand, a Taliban stronghold and one of...

Men’s Role in Reproductive Rights

by | May 10, 2013 | Blog, Media Exploitation Gallery

Until now, we’ve been far too comfortable with men occupying a lethargic role in the sexual and reproductive rights movement: that of passive allies. And while it’s imperative that communities and individuals most marginalized by reproductive oppression lead the way...

Number of States in Which Rapists Can Sue For Custody & Visitation Rights — 31 — & Other Shocking Rape Facts

by | Oct 29, 2012 | Blog

From Alternet by Soraya Chemaly Remember facts? Remember facts about rape? Because it turns out that a whole lot of people know less than nothing about the subject. Indeed what they think they know is a whole lot of something that is wrong and dangerous to our heath,...

State of The World’s Mothers

by | May 13, 2012 | Blog

As the mother of two teenagers, my greatest concern tonight is what to put on the dinner table, chicken or fish, pasta or pizza? A world away, in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, 32 year old Alemeneshe, pictured here breastfeeding her one year old son Ayalres, has far...