ISTANBUL – I opened up to my friend about the abuse my ex-boyfriend had put me through last year...
Category - Perspective
UK’s sexual assault epidemic spurred me to act
Bridgend, South Wales, UK – As a young woman, I am horrified and hurt by the alarmingly high rate...
Watch out – small aggressive acts forewarn violence
A man staring at the author on a bus in Istanbul. (Bilge Nur Güven/YJI) A man twice your age stares...
Media can help confront sexual violence, but also create problems
LONDON – The media, whether that be social, film, the news or art, is meant to reflect the society...
Gender roles trap boys in a suffocating box of masculinity
Debates around the representation and disparity between men and women in media are certainly...
Learning the hard truth about being a girl
As a girl you are raised to be careful. Be careful of what you wear, what you say, how you act and...
Students don’t deserve the burden of gun violence
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. — It was Thursday evening and I should have been worrying about my...
Students unsurprised to learn their schools were sites of sexual...
Throughout the UK, many young people learned earlier this year that their primary and secondary...