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In the year since the #MeToo movement took center stage, one thing is clear: Consent can still be a hard concept to grasp. What is consent? Is there a double standard that comes with it? And when an encounter is not consensual, what’s the best path to accountability and healing? In a recent VICE on…
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On August 10, 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg took her judicial oath at the White House, becoming the first Jewish woman and only the second woman justice ever appointed to the Supreme Court. Today she celebrates 25 years on the bench—a major milestone in a career that has turned her into a proud defender of women’s…
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After Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the bench this week, questions quickly surfaced about what his exit means for the future of women, people of color and the LGBTQ community, whose rights are often on the line in high-profile cases that come before the justices. But there was one other person…
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Presidents come and go, but Supreme Court justices last a lifetime—and their rulings can affect women for generations to come. The privilege of nominating a high court judge now falls to President Donald Trump for the second time with the coming retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy. Trump has vowed to put conservative judges on the…
Read more“Silence Breakers” are celebrated as Time magazine’s 2017 Person of the Year, #MeToo has gone viral, and countless women are courageously sharing their stories. Sexual harassment has come out of the shadows, and Americans have opened a larger conversation about sexual assault. But survivors who seek justice continue to encounter an often hostile legal system…
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Tonight’s episode of The Big Bang Theory got off to a rather odd and uncomfortable start: Howard went in for a vasectomy, Sheldon unintentionally referred to wanting to “touch as many children as possible” as the host of a kid’s science show, and Amy was shot down (by Sheldon, ugh) for suggesting the new search…
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