Dear Dad
I thought about writing Jim instead. That is your name. It has been a while since I have thought of you as more than the person who spread his seed. That certainly doesn’t make you a father. You were never …
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Dear Provider: What Your Health Care Provider Should Always Ask
PHOTO BY © Wavebreakmedia Ltd | Dreamstime.com I am always learning. I learn from the perinatal women that sit across from me each week in session. I learn from the women who open up, post and share their experiences …
San Francisco Looks to Join List of Counties with Sex Trafficking Unit
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón is asking new Mayor Mark Farrell to let him install a Human Trafficking Unit in his office, a proposal that gained the support of... By John Kelly This post San Francisco Looks to Join …
The new face of veteran homelessness
The research into women veterans and homelessness has been almost nonexistent until the last few years. For a long time, it was wrongly assumed that whatever was driving women veterans into homelessness must just be like the factors that …
Challenges Faced by Female Entrepreneurs
Even though women have done so much in the business world already, with female CEOs leading major corporations and incredibly talented women starting their own hugely popular brands, female entrepreneurs continue to face a variety of challenges in the workplace. …
Hillary Clinton Makes History as Democratic Nominee
Whether or not you vote for her, American women can all breathe a sigh of relief that one of the nation’s two major political parties have selected a woman as their standard bearer and nominee for the nation’s highest political …
Announcing Our Special Launch Series for Online Financial Support Groups for Women
Have you been thinking about joining our life-changing online financial support groups for women? Well, now is your perfect opportunity to take that next step on your journey to financial wellbeing. And, you can now take that next step risk-free …
Orange Is the New Black: More Women Landing Behind Bars
The popular Netflix series, Orange is the New Black, is based on real-life experiences in Piper Kerman’s memoir about the year she spent in prison for her participation in an international drug smuggling caper. The show is designed to humanize …
Barriers to Healthcare for Trafficked Women and Children
By Katherine Welch, M.D.Recently I was discussing health care outreach to people who are prostituted, are street kids, or other similar population groups with someone who works with an organization that does outreach. She told me her organization had “tried” …
What has a graduation got to do with social justice?
The connection between a university graduation and social justice may not be immediately obvious, and I did not expect to be posting about my son’s ceremony, but a few things made the occasion somewhat relevant (at least for …
