“Surely nowhere in the world do oppression and persecution based solely on the color of the skin appear more hateful and hideous than in the capital of the United States, because the chasm between the principles upon which this Government was founded, in which it still professes to believe, and those which are daily practiced […]

Hi everyone, It’s been a while, and I have missed writing for you. I’ve come back to this space after several months, and I realize that anyone who was keeping up with my posts must be wondering why I’ve been so quiet for the first half of 2020. A lot has happened in the last […]

It’s no secret that Houston is a major hub for human trafficking. (If you didn’t know that, check out my first and second posts in my series on human trafficking.) But today’s post is about freedom, not slavery…it’s a story of how my friend Natasha Paradeshi, co-founder of The Landing, created a force to fight […]

All anti-trafficking organizations wish to see a day when they become obsolete, and Love146 is no different. Love146 is an international human rights organization working to end child trafficking and exploitation. In 2014, it developed its own child trafficking prevention education curriculum called Not a Number so that fewer children need to come to them […]

Hi everyone, I promised you a series of 3 posts focused on human trafficking, and I’ll share those with you soon. But in the meantime, I stumbled upon an awesome collection of podcasts that I can’t wait to check out, so I wanted to share them with you. I. love. podcasts. I listen to them […]

On any given day in 2016, in the United States alone there were 403,000 people living in conditions of modern slavery in the United States. Let that sink in. This number likely hasn’t improved much given that victim identification is still very difficult, and that anti-trafficking efforts around the world still don’t have universal consensus around […]

“Start to push, break your own glass ceiling” A little dose of feminine fire for your Monday morning! Glass Ceiling is a feminist anthem from 2005 that is still relevant today. Emily Haines, the lead singer of the band Metric, is here to make sure we are awake and starting this week off with resistance […]

A couple of days ago, the New York Times reported that the Taliban has been negotiating a deal with the United States to withdraw U.S. troops and set up future talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban. Zalmay Khalilzad, American special envoy, has spent the past year negotiating a deal with the Taliban that “includes […]

“Women’s rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.” For this month’s Queen Quote, I want to pay respects to the late Toni Morrison. I have read a bit of her work in […]

Education = better family planning. On average, women who have had more years of education have fewer, healthier children.  This is no coincidence–the World Bank’s study proved female education to be causally linked to lower fertility and delay in marriage. More education for girls leads to more knowledge of and autonomy over their reproductive health, which means […]