Month: March 2006

I was 15. It was a little more than a month before my 16th birthday. I was half drunk. I went willingly with him to his bedroom when I knew no one else was at home. I was a virgin. He knew that. I’d told him, repeatedly....

As I have read all of the stories of rape, incest and abuse here over the last few days – I have had a really crazy kind of response: “Why didn’t it happen to me?” Now that just shows you how sick our...

Well this is actually more of a week and a half in review. Why? Because I said so. No, it is really because we just have that much to discuss. In this Week (and a half) in Canadian Politics – the Emerson Ethics scandal...

We’ve seen the awesome impact our shared voices have had here at BooTrib. We’ve heard so many men and women who have read them tell us how much they were affected. There was a plea for for us to spread these stories...

So I’ve been thinking, in the wake of South Dakota, about ways to make the Democratic Party understand that we, we women, we activists, we Democrats, are serious about women’s rights and that we expect them to stand...