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She was eighteen and accepted into the college she always wanted to attend. She arrived on campus as a bright-eyed-and-bushy-tailed freshman, ready to embark on a new journey and start a new adult life.
But something was off.
She didn’t fit in. She didn’t feel like she could make friends. She felt alone and trapped. She didn’t […]

I was intently watching Teen Mom on MTV when I was overcome with irritation due to the fact that a commercial break interrupted a seriously intense moment. With no other choice but to stare at the screen and wait for my show to come back on, I sat listening to why Proactiv is the best […]

From the time we are old enough to face bullies, have cooties and be pushed down for being a girl -we are told to stand up for ourselves.
I’m sure little boys are instructed to “be tough” as well, but as little girls, it’s always stressed to not follow the crowd, stand up for what we […]

She could be your little niece, 3-years-old and fully of rare innocence and wonder for the world. She could be your great aunt who is a little crazy and loses her wits when she has a glass of Chardonay. She could be your mother who against all odds, you find yourself turning out to be […]

Picture this. There is a girl who has been dating a guy for about two years, and for about one and a half of those years, he has been abusing her.
She thinks because they have been dating for so long that there is no question of him loving her. Anybody who looks in from the […]

I hear it probably once a day: someone misusing the word “rape” and joking about sexual assault. “I raped that test!” or “They’re raping us with these prices!” I hear constantly.I’m not entirely sure when abuse and increased gas prices started going hand in hand.  Your preparedness for that test is not the equivalent of […]

Two teenage girls walked into separate parties in the late 1990s unaware of what the night had in store for them. Seventeen-year-old Hillory J. Farias was resting after a vigorous night of fun at a teen dance club when someone unknowingly slipped a substance into her drink. Able to stumble her way home, the popular teen and […]

Ladies, we have come a long way since the days of Margaret Sanger and her valiant campaign to ensure birth control for the masses. Actually, for the majority of us, we’ve come a long way from our first encounter with a form of birth control: maybe you were like me and were in your 7th […]

Raise your hand if you get those e-mails from your mom about ways to protect yourself. You know the ones. The ones that tell us to carry an umbrella so we can beat an attacker over the head, or the ones that say no be wary if we hear a crying baby, because it could […]

Today, there’s no reason to leave home in order to find your significant other. By simply turning on your computer, dozens of potential candidates could be sitting in your mailbox waiting to be sorted through.Internet dating websites create the illusion of offering all the answers to our dating woes.
There seems to be nothing wrong with […]