by Lisamarie Bourke | Nov 6, 2019 | Blog, Lisamarie Bourke
You’ve heard people gossip about someone else. Perhaps you joined in! Maybe you heard the sordid details and thought to yourself “How could someone do something like that?” People tend to thrive on gossip – even shows and movie plots are...
by Lisamarie Bourke | Nov 3, 2019 | Blog, Lisamarie Bourke
Every day, women and young girls are objectified and exploited across various mediums of media. Social media posts, movies, magazine ads, album cover art – women are used as an item to make a product more attractive to a consumer. The media plays into...
by Lisamarie Bourke | Oct 27, 2019 | Blog, Lisamarie Bourke
As an outpouring of the spirit of man, music is a universal language capable of touching people’s inner being in ways that words often cannot. A line from The Mourning Bride, a play by William Congreve is “Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, to...
by Lisamarie Bourke | Oct 7, 2019 | Blog, Lisamarie Bourke
Statistically speaking, one in three women will be exposed to gender-based violence in her lifetime. It is a widespread issue, reaching women in nearly every country, culture, and socio-economic stature. Violence increases the risk of women developing mental or...
by Lisamarie Bourke | Sep 23, 2019 | Blog, Lisamarie Bourke
A masked man boarded a bus carrying children home from school in Mingora, Pakistan on an October day in 2012. He fired a single bullet into the head of Malala Yousefzai and fled, leaving her to die. The Taliban had apparently made good on their threat to kill the girl...