Addressing Sexual Harassment and Abuse
This is such an important, watershed moment for addressing sexual harassment and abuse in America and I fear simple-mindedness may cause us to fumble. As a woman, I have seen victims of sexual harassment and violence be mocked, shamed, dismissed,…
Sexual Assault of Black Men: What we don’t want to talk about.
Guest post by Ruby Bouie Johnson LCSW Writing about sexual assault. BlackSexGeek, Sexuality Educator and Counselor, and Clinical Social Worker in private practice in Plano, Texas. Every 98 seconds, in the United States, someone is sexually assaulted. Sexual assault has…
Want to fix a problem? The first step is to name it.
Originally posted at Elizabeth Anne Wood Consulting Therapists commonly tell their clients that you need to name a problem before you can fix it, and this is just as true for social change as it is for individual change. Still,…
Woodhull Joins 156 Civil and Human Rights Groups in Call for Stronger Response to Hate Incidents
This is a press release from The Leadership Conference. Please find the original post here. WASHINGTON –The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and 155 civil and human rights groups today called upon the Executive Branch to respond more…
Amplifying Voices: Stephanie S. Franklin, Esq.
by Guest Blogger: Stephanie S. Franklin, Esq. Dear Family, I am writing these words to you with a tormented and infuriated soul. My heart hanging heavy watching, thinking and reflecting on the events of this week, prior months, years and centuries…
USHRN’s Statement on the State of Emergency of Anti-Trans Hate Violence
The US Human Rights Network (of which Woodhull is a member and, with SisterSong, chairs the Social Rights and Gender Justice Working Group) Coordinating Center extends our thoughts and prayers to the families and loved ones of the 18 transgender…
Dehumanization In A Nutshell: “We Work With The Garbage Of New York”
-Sikkim Assing, Retired corrections officer, on why she and others carry concealed weapons, and feel entitled to use them. Those words - "We work with the garbage of New York" - are attributed to retired corrections officer Sikkim Assing in…
Protest: The Gift of Disruption
Protests are spreading across the country, and this, I think, is a gift. And I hope it is a very disruptive gift. Before you complain about the inconvenience of protests, remember this: protests need to be disruptive. They need not be violent, but…
No More Of The Master’s Tools
For the second time in two weeks a grand jury voted not to indict a police officer for killing an unarmed black man. Last week it was Darren Wilson who got a pass in the killing of Mike Brown in…