It's Just Me

Amartya Sen made the idea of "missing women" famous--those baby girls who should be walking among us but are not because someone a...

“You do such good work!” I hear this comment from time to time when people recall that my work has something to do with gender-based violenc...

Words enter the public discourse as if they have always been there. And young people especially, use them as if they have been and are self...

I heard the term Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRD) for the first time in 2011. I was not convinced of the category--and as with self-nomi...

" I write myself a note each day, and I place it in my hat. The wind comes by, the hat blows high but that not the end of that ...

We have been talking about consent since yesterday, and the infamous 'feeble no' judgment has come up just once--maybe because we...

I want to write about men. 'Men and boys,' to be specific. In the years we have been doing this gender violence awareness work, i...

"And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more. People talking without speaking People hearing without listening Pe...

With this post, I am setting myself the task of blogging everyday about sexual and gender-based violence from now until at least the end of...