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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
-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…
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…
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…
**UPDATE, DEC. 4, 2014: It was brought to my attention by a reader on December 3 that Frankel and Winston's post had been edited with a very different tone after I linked to it here. It is unfortunate that instead…
We were saddened and outraged by the announcement last night that the Grand Jury has decided not to charge Darren Wilson for killing Michael Brown. In this time of tremendous pain, the US Human Rights Network (in which Woodhull is…