WorldcrunchA gender and diversity journalist, Luisa Lara has a background in gender and diversity studies at the Knight Center for Journalism. She is interested in telling stories from an intersectional and feminist perspective.
In Colombia, people with disabilities face multiple barriers to accessing comprehensive sexuality education, which limits their autonomy and increases the risk of sexual violence. Experts warn that the education and health systems still do not guarantee their right to receive adequate information and support.
A bracelet from Spain is one of the products helping detect if your drink was ‘spiked’ at a nightclub to cause torpor and impede self-defense. But while such tools may prevent incidents like rape, activists say they’d prefer solutions to the plague of sexist violence, Luisa Lara reports in El Espectador.
Mother figures don’t always look the same. In the lives of many trans people, that presence comes in the form of a trans mother — a role that is born out of love and chosen care.
Human rights groups warn that El Salvador’s prisons are marked by overcrowding, lack of access to basic services and repeated rights violations — but that the situation is even worse for women, who are already vulnerable sector of the population.
Human rights groups warn that El Salvador’s prisons are marked by overcrowding, lack of access to basic services and repeated rights violations — but that the situation is even worse for women, who are already vulnerable sector of the population.