Commentary

So what will solve the problem? Public funding.

It is rare for women who have graduated from the program to return to prison.

Last spring, I was aboard a student research vessel with fellow college students to conduct research projects that ranged from phytoplankton studies to plastics and biological surveys.

The bodies of women and people who were assigned female at birth (AFAB) are considered commodities in the United States, objects that are able to be bought or sold.

It is really important to see invisible work that is done by women to hold societies together, to hold communities together. It is embarrassing to live in the United States and still have poor representation in Congress, poor representation in our business community.

Why can’t we reward and celebrate the people who seek help?

Our role is not to “fix what is wrong.”

We are all survivors of the human condition. All of us are attempting to make our way through the world. If we could go across the room and ask everybody to tell us “what makes you happy, what makes you sad, what challenge you have had in life, what success you have had, what makes you tick” — three things would happen.

Within 30 minutes, two calm, purposeful female Behavioral Crisis Response members arrived at the front gate.

While there is plenty of bad news out there about climate change, Bill McKibben — who founded 350.org — published

As we reawaken to the control issues related to women’s bodies again… a reflection on the tension between two competing purposes. “One is social control — ensuring that people conform to social norms, standards and ideologies by providing services that control those who are deemed unworthy or deviant.”

It was her words “how dare you” that made me sit with my ideas about reproductive rights.