If we can’t talk about it, we can’t end it: Playing your part to end violence against children
In my first week at Together for Girls, I learned very quickly that experiencing sexual assault doesn’t make a person a victim, but a survivor; that there’s a difference between coerced and forced sex; that pairing photographed faces of young people next to data on the issue of sexual violence against children is a unanimous […]
Speaking Truth to Silence
It’s incredible what putting an end to silence and fear can do. When AIDS first appeared on the scene in the U.S in the 70s, it was initially called the “gay-related immune deficiency.” It wasn’t until the mid-1980s that the Reagan administration even mentioned the word “AIDS” publicly. The stigma and discrimination that hounded this […]
Communications: Changing Dominant Narratives
I have been interested in the rights, lives, and stories of women and girls for as long as I can remember. I lived in Pakistan between the ages of 12 and 18, at which point I specifically became concerned with the astounding levels of violence that women and girls face around the world. Since then […]