By Shaunna Thomas, UltraViolet Co-Founder and Executive Director Congress passed the largest stimulus bill in US history last week but they aren’t done. The House and Senate took a first step in passing legislation that would provide urgent, much-needed funding to small businesses, hospitals, and state governments, including expanding unemployment…

With countless books, documentaries, online archives and even college syllabi available online, learning on the internet can be as overwhelming as it is exciting. Sometimes it helps to have a roadmap, which is why we created a curriculum for this year’s Black History Month. This curriculum is not meant to…

Here are the facts: one in four American women will have an abortion in their lifetime, and over 70% of Americans support legal access to abortion. Despite this reality, the media pretends that the extremist view of the anti-choice movement is the view of the majority of Americans on abortion…

By Shaunna Thomas, Executive Director, UltraViolet Action Let’s be clear: women changed the direction of the country last night. Because of women, specifically women of color, there is now a check on the runaway Trump Administration and their daily attacks on our rights, our freedoms, and the very fabric of…

By: Shaunna Thomas, Co-Founder and Executive Director, UltraViolet and Terri Poore, Policy Director, National Alliance to End Sexual Violence Right now, the Senate Judiciary Committee is moving forward with a sham hearing not meant to get to the truth about Brett Kavanaugh. The primary reason to hold this hearing is…

By Shaunna Thomas, Executive Director, UltraViolet If you thought we’ve heard the last of some of the most notorious abusers who lost their jobs due to sexual harassment and abuse, think again. Barely a few months have passed since dozens of perpetrators have been publicly exposed for their workplace sexual…

By Nita Chaudhary, Co-Founder, UltraViolet Big news! I am transitioning out of the Co-Executive Director role at UltraViolet. Six years ago, Shaunna and I founded UltraViolet because we saw an opportunity to build a community of people to create a cost for sexism and fight for a more inclusive world…

We are witnessing an unprecedented movement of survivors of sexual harassment and assault exposing the powerful men who have abused them. …

The progressive movement has a sexual harassment problem, and we desperately need to talk about it. — On August 19th, Holly Fussell came forward with her story about reporting sexual harassment to former FL-09 congressional candidate, Susannah Randolph. After reporting the harassment, Fussell was raped by the same man she had reported for harassment. I believe survivors, but this part of her story isn’t true.