I know this has since passed, but how can I participate in any upcoming summits?

There is also a great segment on sex trafficking by Sunitha Krishnan from TEDx India. Just thought you should know

Thanks for this!

It’s really difficult for women to live in the virgin-whore dichotomy that we do. Plan B makes it easier for us to mediate that, making our bodies our property and not that of societies. Contraception does not objectify, it empowers. Personally, I don’t take contraception. But I’m glad to know that if either I or [...]

I think what people don’t realize is that in most cases, women have thought long and hard about whether they want an abortion. It’s an extremely huge step with health implications for the expectant mother; why else would she take it? The waiting periods are almost as bad as the forced ultrasounds voted on by [...]

Haha at Franzia Kafka’s comment What’s extremely disheartening is that men continue to take credit for some of the work that women have done. I was reading recently that Eli Whitney did not actually invent the cotton gin; he was just the first who was able to patent the idea from a young woman. [...]

Thank goodness we’ve finally realized how the media targets boys as well! While everyone is aware of how the media portrays women and how that affects young girls and their self esteem, not much reporting is done about boys. What with movies, TV, and games being more accessible to younger children, it is no wonder [...]

As far as we have come from the past, women are still more likely to be discriminated against or hurt by comments about age. It has a lot to do with appearance; women are valued for their appearance. Men do not hold such a burden, and if they do, not to as high a degree [...]