By Jolene Cardenas Director of Communications and Development, CCASA I doubt I was the only person to sob out loud while watching the recent ESPY awards this year. It was my visceral reaction from the…
by Neta Meltzer Communications & Development Coordinator, CCASA This morning, I read an opinion piece in the New York Times by a self-proclaimed feminist. In the piece, the writer, Bari Weiss, claims that…
by Neta Meltzer Communications & Development Coordinator, CCASA I recently read a book about the animal rights movement that advocated a pragmatic approach to create social change. While the author validated the thoughts and…
by Neta Meltzer Communications & Development Coordinator, CCASA The title of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Ted-Talk-turned-book declares, “We Should All Be Feminists,” and she’s right. We should all be feminists, all of us, whether we…
by Neta Meltzer Communications & Development Coordinator, CCASA In conversation this week with my colleague, Josh, he said something that stuck with me hours after I’d left the office for the day. “Knowledge…
13 Reasons Why is a challenging show to watch. While it vividly illustrates difficult topics such as suicide and sexual assault, which serves to bring hard topics into discussion, it also risks triggering survivors of…
“We are disappointed to see, yet again, that the impact on the perpetrator, who chose to commit a crime against another person, is being considered over the impact on the victim, who did not have…
Brie Franklin, executive director of the Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault, said the judges in the Wilkerson and Turner cases showed too much concern for the perpetrators. Judges don’t make those types of considerations in…
Brie Franklin, executive director of the Colorado Coalition against Sexual Assault, denounced the decision on Thursday. “We have seen over and over the failure of the criminal justice system to consider the trauma and life-long…