The Netherlands Fights Sex Trafficking in India

The Netherlands Fights Sex Trafficking in India

What could be worse than being a child who is forced into a brothel? Perhaps being freed from the brothel but then treated as a criminal by the police, by your village, and even by your family. A group in the Netherlands decided to take action by creating and funding...
What Happens When Women Work?

What Happens When Women Work?

This list was taken from a UN report on the financial empowerment of women.  When more women work, economies grow. An increase in female labour force participation—or a reduction in the gap between women’s and men’s labour force participation—results in faster...
Julia Ward Howe Proclamation 1870

Julia Ward Howe Proclamation 1870

I just learned of this proclamation yesterday. What a great idea!—assemble women so that they can chart a course to world peace. What the men have been doing for the last 10,000 years hasn’t worked. Let’s give women ten millennia and see what they can...
Who Gave Men the Right to Give Rights?

Who Gave Men the Right to Give Rights?

At some point in history, a man decided that he had the right to grant, or deny, women equal rights. Some other men thought, “Hey! That’s a great idea!” Then they started 10,000 years of wars and misogyny. It’s time to return to a world where...
Male vs Female Sexuality

Male vs Female Sexuality

Yesterday, I had an interesting chat with my friend, Kym McBride. She made the comment that women had various levels or gradations of love, whereas men seems to be more simplistic, either in-love or not. I wondered if that were true. I’m sure that there are...
Meet Oni Hiaru

Meet Oni Hiaru

I thought some of my readers might like to meet Oni Hiaru, a Carib medicine woman who is a major character in my trilogy, The Jacinta Joseph Caribbean Adventures. Oni is a wise woman. In this excerpt, Oni is talking to my detective Jacinta “JJ” Joseph. As...