#womenslives: “Getting pregnant was one of the darkest points in my life…”

[…] Getting pregnant was one of the darkest points in my life. I was broke from quitting my job, going back to school, and then accepting a low-paying fellowship. I was alone and living in a brand new...

#womensstories: my mom was an underground railroad for abused women -@xoJane

What She Taught Me About Feminism And FearOnce, my mom spotted a bruised woman with three children holding a cardboard sign in the Wal-Mart parking lot. It was pouring down rain. I was seven. “Stay in...

#womenslives: Four women share their stories about rape, disclosure, and dealing with rape myths

Grim reading on openDemocracy. Four women share their stories about rape, disclosure, and dealing with rape myths. TW.Women of the World (WOW) created a public, cultural space where women’s stories of...

#womensstories: Abused in the past and abandoned in the present – a Magdalene Laundries survivor

She remains anonymous by choice. She values her privacy above all. She lives alone and never married. She attends daily Mass. She will never again live in Ireland. She celebrated her 78th birthday rec...

#womenslives: “Rape: I was waiting for it to be my turn”

The author of this piece prefers to remain anonymous.Rape. I always felt like it was going to be a case of when it happened to me and not if. I was 11 when I first heard a survivor’s story from a frie...

#womenstories: Girlhood defined through the decades

#womenstories: Girlhood defined through the decades: stories from women age 18 to 80 - @viceFrom Vice. I’ve posted some of the stories from the older women deliberately. They’re affecting (and in plac...

#womenslives: Brooke, 21, tells her story for the first time.

TW, obviously.On melindatankardreist.com: “Brooke, 21, tells her story for the first time: Brooke, 21, survived a year of abuse at the hands of her porn-fuelled boyfriend who bashed her if she r...

#womensstories: “It all started in August last year when Scott was approached…”

It all started in August last year when Scott was approached by a local who told her about two women who were alleging that a member of the Peace Corps had assaulted them. Scott reported the allegat...

#womensstories: “Then, a month ago, she wrote and asked me what to do…”

Then, a month ago, she wrote and asked me what to do. She forwarded an email she had received from a senior colleague that opened, “Can I share something deeply personal with you?” Within the email,...

#womenslives: “What made this tweet different than all my other tweets…”

What made this tweet different than all my other tweets (and please read that in your best Passover Seder voice), is that in the last few weeks I’ve received hundreds of negative replies from men rang...

#womensstories: pre-Roe abortion stories collected from the Ms. Facebook page

Below, read pre-Roe abortion stories collected from the Ms. Facebook page (and via msmagazine): “In 9th grade a good friend became pregnant by our AAU coach. He threatened to kill her if she told how...

#womensstories: “The experience was one of many in my 20-year career…”

The experience was one of many in my 20-year career that have made me feel awkward and conflicted about simply trying to do my job: experiences that annoyed me, but that I knew I should find flatterin...

#womensstories: Modern family

Modern family. Piece by Jennifer Chen, in bust magazine. PDF of full piece is here.

#womensstories: What a year of leading Britain’s first feminist political party has taught me – @sophierunning

#womensstories: What a year of leading Britain’s first feminist political party has taught me - @sophierunning“[H]ow it feels to be totally, blissfully liberated from Britain’s male, white...

#womenslives: “Although Grace had no way of knowing the exact dates she was incarcerated in isolation…”

Although Grace had no way of knowing the exact dates she was incarcerated in isolation, she says this is one of the reasons why her asylum was refused by the Home Office. “They say I’m not...

#womensstories: Enforcing Northern Ireland’s new Swedish-style sex purchase law (via @RuthJacobs/ @roomofourown)

Cross-posted from: Ruth Jacobs, originally published: 19.11.14.A rainy night in Belfast. Cold and wet with a wind whipping round the corners of the barren streets where women used to stand. How things...

#womensstories: Nepal: the struggle for equal citizenship rights for women (by @renaissansa on @5050oD)

Kathmandu celebrated an early Deepawali this year as inhabitants took to the streets on September 20th to welcome the new constitution. Celebrations were definitely in order - after all, this was a co...

#womensstories: Defending land and community: women on the frontlines of climate justice (by @UrgentAct on @5050od)

Throughout Southeast Asia, hundreds of women environmental activists have been jailed, attacked and defamed as threats to “national security”. They remain without adequate resources, prote...

#womensstories: The challenges of conflict for women and girls (from @girlsglobe)

The long-term impacts of war in conflict affected areas can have seemingly ever-lasting effects that are passed down from generation to generation. Families are uprooted from their homes, customs, soc...

#womenstories: creeps on a train (from lililascala)

I stepped on to the train and assumed my usual corner seat, the one right at the front with a little table. Within a minute or so, five chaps of a rather burly description with shaved heads and assort...