Life: Full steam ahead!

And here we are at the end of all things... well, at the end of graduate school, anyway.

So I found this note...

I was in the women's restroom this afternoon and saw a note on the floor of the stall. I picked it up and wondered to myself, "This looks like a note, like something I would have passed to a friend in middle school. Who writes notes anymore? How did it end up here?" I opened the note and read its contents. Truly heartbreaking.

It's been a crazy few weeks in the world of women's rights...

 WOW, do I have a lot to write about this evening. Where to begin...?

This thing called life

We've all heard of the mid-life crisis, and some of us may have even heard the term quarter-life crisis.

Every once in a while, I have a similar experience, where I somewhat silently freak out about various things happening in my life. I'm experiencing that right now, and have been, on and off, for a few months. It all started late last summer...

And this is why you should care...

So I've been blowing up my Facebook wall with stories about violence against women (go figure) and thought a nice round up of some recent articles, stories, etc on the topic would be nice. Here we go...

16 Days of Activism, Blog Post #8: Violence Against Women in Social Movements

Welcome to the 16th and final day of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence. Today's topic is violence against women in social movements and I'll be focusing on something that's close to home for many of us - the Occupy movement.

16 Days of Activism, Blog Post #7: 16 Ways to Take Action

Welcome to Day 8 of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence. As I've been writing blog posts for this campaign, I've realized that the topic of gender violence can be overwhelming and quite discouraging. I am going to be out of town for part of the weekend and probably won't be blogging tomorrow, so I thought I'd leave ya'll with a list of action items so YOU can do something to affect positive change.(From the 16 Days website,  http://saynotoviolence.org/16days2011).