In the professional world, time is tight, and business coffees, lunches, and after-work drinks can often seem a daunting task as you try to stay connected to all the people you meet at networking events, business meetings, and happy hours. Perhaps you’ve even finished a summer internship, but know you won’t be looking for a [...]
Archive | October, 2011
Gen X Women Trending Childless
Last week a friend of mine told me about a report stating 43% of Gen X women do not have children. Knowing how many of my friends in Gen Y are putting off children for various reasons, I don’t find it hard to believe. I understand it may shock many of the Baby Boomer generation, [...]
What Steven Greenstreet Doesn’t Understand About Space, Gender, and Occupying Wall Street
I haven’t followed the #Occupy protests very carefully. Maybe that’s because I am one of the few people left in the country who still has full time employment. Maybe it’s because I also go to school at night. Maybe it’s because I’m simply tired. For whatever reason, I haven’t been involved in it. However, it [...]
Pimped Out: Child Prostitution in America
When most Americans hear the words “sex trafficking,” we think oversees. We have all heard of sex trafficking issues in countries like Thailand, Africa, and Eastern Europe, and our hearts go out to those people. When we hear stories about American children being trafficked right here in United States, we are incredulous. No one believes [...]
The Plan to Eventually Love My Body
I don’t know how they do it. Women who shout from the rooftops how much they love themselves and their bodies – celebrating their awesome “shero” female power! I think they are either the most enlightened and strong and amazing women EVER, or else they are practicing positive affirmation – telling themselves something in the [...]
Occupy Gender
Many opponents of the Occupy Wall Street movement who wish to protect the outsized power and wealth of the 1% complain that the protesters in New York and around the globe are against capitalism. Sure, some are. But for the vast majority, nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, most of the Americans [...]
Limitations Without Representation
As the recent tragedy of Alecia Wheeler has shown in the District of Columbia, legal representation is incredibly important for survivors of domestic violence to be sure they receive the remedy they deserve; in most jurisdictions, a civil protection order. During domestic violence awareness month, we must keep in mind the significant hurdles that still [...]
Making a Domestic Violence Advocate
Whenever I shared with people that I work with victims of domestic violence and am heavily interested in the issue, I used to constantly get strange looks. Why would I want to surround myself with such a depressing issue? It is just that which has made me realize that this type of crime should never [...]
Adolescent Days of the Revolution: Occupy Wall Street
While Occupy Wall Street is not necessarily tied to the women’s movement (at least, not yet?), it’s always been my thought that the women’s movement, one that has been ongoing for hundreds of years and one that covers countless and specific topics and issues, one that has seen multiple waves and incarnations, one that involves [...]
2011 DC Stop Modern Slavery Walk
With an estimated 27 million slaves worldwide in 2011, modern-day slavery is a global enterprise. However, in countries like the United States, it is often considered a distant problem – taking place in the back alleys of Cambodia and Ukraine. This assumption is incorrect. Trafficking is not secluded to the far reaches of the globe, [...]