Posts tagged // women

Here’s the powerful true story of a muslim girl, living in the USA, who agreed to marry a man she never had met before, and later had the courage to get divorced against everyone’s acceptance, with absolutely no support from her own family. “Some days I’d tell my mom that I just wasn’t ready for [...]

I just began reading the “Beauty Myth” by Naomi Wolf. Just now as I closed it for a bit and turned to television for a bit, I caught “What Not To Wear” (ep 250) and suddenly I finally (fully) understand why the self-esteem of the people that go there seems to improve dramatically! It’s interesting [...]

WTF?! When harassed, who doesn’t just love to hear this gem from someone close to them: “Maybe you did something to provoke it.”?! NO! FUCK NO! Do I really need to shout out loud how wrong this is?! Really? The sad thing is, this is more common than we ‘d like to admit. The sick [...]

Courage to live. Courage to speak. Courage to fight.