In this latest No Time For Fear column, I want to share a Reuters article that I came across recently. Nigeria is having its general election in 2019; this alone is cause for worry. Female politicians and civil society leaders have said that women are not likely to...
Welcome back, friends! For my first No Time For Fear column of 2018, it seems fitting that this week’s column be dedicated to the 2nd annual Women’s March, which happened across the United States and around the world this past Saturday. And I’m going...
For my last No Time For Fear column of 2017, I decided to end on a somewhat happier note, even though we all know there are heaps of not-so-positive things happening all over the world, at this very moment, concerning girls and politics. Think of this column as a call...
With the recent wave of sexual harassment stories coming to light in all spheres of life all over the world, I thought I would take this week’s column to discuss a subset of that, namely the policies and procedures that women have to go through to report sexual...
Over the past couple weeks, a few stories in the political realm have really struck me and I bookmarked them to discuss in this week’s column. Without further ado, let’s dive in. On Oct. 21, the New York Times published a piece about female lawmakers in...
This week’s column honestly makes me so mad I don’t even know what to do or where to start. It’s just awful, heartbreaking and in my opinion, absolutely unnecessary. Last week, federal immigration agents detained a 10-year-old girl with cerebral...