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Abortion rights supporters outside of the Austin Convention Center on May 14, 2022, in Austin, Texas, where the American Freedom Tour with former President Donald Trump was being held. Protests were a response to the Supreme Court’s then-leaked draft opinion indicating the Court’s plan to overturn Roe v. Wade. (Brandon Bell / Getty Images)

BY BONNIE STABILE | The recent CDC report on the health of U.S. high school students was sharply contextualized by chief medical officer Dr. Deborah Houry’s headline-grabbing remark at the report’s release: “America’s teen girls are engulfed in a growing wave of sadness, violence and trauma.”

Rape culture is defined in part by its tolerance of some degree of subjection of women to a continuum of threats. Rape culture is also characterized by sexism, which involves normalized denigration and dismissal of women. Failure to address these conditions for young people of school age creates hurdles on their already encumbered path to personal and professional success and the possibility of public leadership, where the ranks of women leaders continue to be proportionally much smaller than they are for men.

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USC sophomores Claire Smerdon and Charlie Littleworth tape notes to the Sigma Nu fraternity house on Oct. 22, 2021, where at least two women were drugged and sexually assaulted. Among undergraduate students, 26.4 percent of women students and 6.8 percent of men experience rape or sexual assault. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

BY KENYORA PARHAM | To fight for change effectively, we must listen to students and survivors nationwide and provide them with critical information on how campuses handle sexual assault. We built the Campus Accountability Map and Tool (CAMT) to do just that.

There is no “one size fits all” approach to addressing campus sexual assault, but the CAMT centralizes data to shift focus to one that keeps students first in mind and an institution’s bottom line and reputation last. 

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North Miami Beach, Florida, Walmart discount department store, checkout line, cashier with customer paying . (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

BY CLARENCE LUSANE | Achieving health justice won’t happen by itself. First, we need to imagine it can be done. Then we need to organize and make it happen together.

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ recent attempts to ban an Advanced Placement course in African American studies have us thinking about American fragility, and the drastic consequences of this censorship. Not to mention, what does this mean for our constitutional rights—matters like free speech, and the First Amendment? When the government infringes on our fundamental constitutional rights, how can we fight back?

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