WomenSpeak talks to Debra Providence about her poem While Walking Up Back Street WS: It feels like this poem is based on a real incident that happened to you?… Read more “Interview with Debra Providence”
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While Walking Up Back Street
While walking up Back Street in green tank, yellow mesh T-shirt and loose blue jeans a copper hails me from the other side of the street, “Ras,… Read more “While Walking Up Back Street”
Are You An Advocate? Yes, You Are!
Anyone can be an advocate. Being an advocate means 1. You feel strongly about an issue 2. You are taking positive actions to help influence change There… Read more “Are You An Advocate? Yes, You Are!”
Bocas Lit Fest 2011
Acclaimed Caribbean Women Writers at the Bocas Lit Fest 2011 in Trinidad and Tobago talk about writing as a tool for personal growth and processing difficult experiences… Read more “Bocas Lit Fest 2011”
Restrictive gender norms, which undermine women’s power, competence, and agency, help account for women’s higher rates of depression, poorer standardized scores, and higher discontent with sex.
Doing Gender in the Bedroom: Investing in Gender Norms and the Sexual Experience by Diana T. Sanchez, Jennifer Crocker, Karlee R. Boike.
Gender Stereotyping
Gender Stereotypes are simplistic generalizations about the personality traits, attributes, characteristics, abilities, value and roles of men and women. Gender Stereotyping can be discriminatory because it limits individual… Read more “Gender Stereotyping”
“Street harassment is a serious issue. It impedes women’s equality by preventing them from having the same access to public places as men and from feeling as welcome or comfortable as men. Street harassment makes many women feel like they must be on guard in public as they constantly assess their surroundings, scowl, avoid eye contact, and have cell phones ready in case they need to call for help.”
Holly Kearl of http://stopstreetharassment.com/ writes about the First International Anti-Street Harassment Day for www.thewip.net and highlights WomenSpeak’s participation on March 20, 2011
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Letters from the community
Hi, I think your website is GREAT! My sister and I had a similar idea for a site, it would have been called “today you made a… Read more “Letters from the community”
The Working Woman: Elka
WomenSpeak: What do you feel is your greatest challenge being a woman Elka: Getting things done. I can’t do it all, and need help and no… Read more “The Working Woman: Elka”
Rape is non-consensual sexual intercourse, including vaginal, anal, or oral penetration with a body part or other object.
Rape occurs when sexual intercourse is carried out
1. Through force, violence, duress, menace or fear of injury to victim or others.
2. Without consent of the victim due to intoxication or unconsciousness
3. Where the victim is unable to give consent because of mental impairment or is not of legal age to give consent to sexual intercourse.
The only person responsible for Rape is the Rapist