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As a disabled person, I find the campaign for assisted dying in the UK extremely worrying. No disability group in our country supports the move, which is perhaps why such [...]

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Following the death at Alder Hey Hospital of little Alfie Evans, who had a rare neurological condition, Christina Odone recalled her brother Lorenzo, who at six years old developed a [...]

When lawyer and law professor Caitlin E. Borgmann was a student attending the New York University School of Law, she recalls that her instructors gave short shrift to any of [...]

Four times Natalia Alonso tried out for Ballet Hispanico. On each occasion, she rode the subway to the contemporary dance company's headquarters on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where [...]

Modern dancer Darrin Wright often squeezes in two long rehearsals a day. He's in such demand that numerous choreographers in New York City employ him, including Susan Marshall, Terry Creach, [...]

David Hochoy 'When I began studying dance in the 1970s I had never seen any Asian dancers and I didn't know if I would have a future in dance. That [...]

A RIGOROUS SEASON of performances or a grueling touring schedule can trigger burnout no matter how prepared the dancer. 'It was a shock to my body,' remembers New York City [...]

Even after she died in September 2020 at age 87, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg continued to give sexism the elbow. Tyler recalls Ginsburg visiting UC Berkeley when a student approached wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the words "Notorious RBG" and Ginsburg's face framed by a lacy court collar and slightly lopsided crown. After Prelogar clerked for Ginsburg, she became an appellate litigator, arguing seven times in front of Ginsburg. "The reason I'm thinking of it", Prelogar says, "is because one thing that Justice Ginsburg was known for was mastering the facts of the case. [Extracted from the article]

To reach that verdict, the prosecutors had to nudge the jurors past any number of culturally ingrained misbeliefs about sexual assault victims: fallacies like "real" rape victims fight back. As Manhattan D.A. Vance stated afterward, "Rape is rape whether the survivor reports it within the next hour, within a year, or never at all. One count of first-degree rape and one count of third-degree rape arose from the alleged 2013 rape of aspiring actress Jessica Mann. Thus, in order to obtain a conviction of predatory sexual assault, the jury would have to believe Sciorra's account of Weinstein barging into her home and raping her in 1993 in addition to finding him guilty of either or both of the first-degree charges against the original victims. [Extracted from the article]

It wasn't long ago that women and men who had been raped needed the bruises and cuts to prove the assault. A participant survey resulted in the NJEP publication Judges Tell: What I Wish I Had Known Before I Presided in an Adult Victim Sexual Assault Case, where they describe learning, for instance, that sexual assault is far more prevalent than the general public believes and that it's common for a victim to display a flat affect while testifying. "Judges have found this information very helpful in understanding victim behaviors that don't match common expectations about how sexual assault victims should behave during and after an assault", Schafran notes. [Extracted from the article]

The author presents her experience in attending the funeral of her uncle Martin D. Ginsburg. The topics discussed include the supported marriage that he had with wife, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and the eulogy about him. Moreover, it also features the women's rights, gender equality, and the legacy of his uncle.

'FORTY IS the new 30. Instead of a decade to fade, 40 has bet come a time of endless possibility,' proclaimed a cover of Mirabella magazine. Meanwhile, a study by [...]

NEW YORK CITY--Dancers are often too poor to pay for health insurance and 'they're notorious for thinking they are invincible,' says Robin Staff, codirector of Pink Ribbons Project, Dancers in [...]