Cassaundra StJohn: Helping Female Vets to Move Forward
StJohn is very clear that emotional issues around military service must be resolved before women can move forward. “We acknowledge the impact of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Military Sexual Trauma (MST), and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).
Mary Robinson and The Elders Make Child Marriage Prevention a Top Priority
On a daily basis, twenty-five thousand girls are married before they reach the age of eighteen. To grasp the numbers in real time, that is the equivalent of nineteen girls being married without their consent every minute.
Jennifer Grey’s New Role: Educating Chronic Pain Sufferers
Stats from the Institute of Medicine show that over 110 million adults in the United States “suffer from chronic pain.”
Why Torture is a Moral Issue
Rev. Richard L. Killmer said, “Torture is wrong. This is an absolute moral principle. Our leaders sometimes forget this.”
Beowulf Borrit on “The Scottsboro Boys,” Theatre, and Process
My father is a Lincoln scholar, and my mother trained as an opera singer, so the marriage of a pivotal piece of American history to a Broadway musical was right up my alley.
Liberia’s Leymah Gbowee Talks Maternal Health through Peace
Gbowee said, “You can’t talk about maternal mortality without looking at the implications of peace and conflict.”
Kristine Pearson: Tackling Energy Poverty
“If we can get education and information to rural women in Africa, then you start to change outcomes.” Pearson underscored that women were “information have-nots.”
Mae Jemison: Insights from a Barrier-Breaking Astronaut
A classic pro-active personality, Jemison maintained, “The choices we make create the realities of today and tomorrow.”
An Interview with Dr. Diane M. Harper
“The most important point that I have always said from day one, is that the use of this vaccine must be done with informed consent and complete disclosure of the benefits and harms of Pap screening and HPV vaccines. The decision to be vaccinated must be the woman’s (or parent’s if it is for a young child), and not the physician’s or any board of health, as the vaccination contains personal risk that only the person can value.
Sakena Yacoobi’s Vision for Afghanistan
Yacoobi sees education as the portal to rebuilding her country. In the mid-1990s, she created and implemented a network of eighty underground home schools after the Taliban outlawed education for girls.
The Jump Rope Line by Marcia G. Yerman is included in the new Seal Press anthology Dancing at the Shame Prom.
