Unchained at Last has recently gotten involved in changing the laws they've grown accustomed to helping girls and women fight. "We’re going state by state and introducing legislation," Reiss says. Their efforts influenced recent progress in New York, Texas, and Virginia, and, Reiss says, they have additional legislation still pending in multiple states. As the debate over child marriage travels from state to state, each conversation contributes to growing awareness for their cause. "Our goal is to end child marriage in America," Reiss says. the video in question appears to show Shane seemingly touching himself in a sexual manner in front of a poster ofWillow Smithwho was, at the time, 11 years old.Willow’s mother, Jada, took toTwitter The struggle to speak up becomes more difficult if you are a student who sits at various intersections. Black queer, trans, disabled, and immigrant communities seem to be left out of these conversations around sexual violence and intimate partner violence at HBCUs across the country. “The U.S. State Department considers marriage before 18 a human rights abuse, and this is a human rights abuse that we know overwhelmingly affects girls, not boys,” Fraidy Reiss, founder and executive director of Unchained at Last, an anti-child marriage organization, tellsTeen Vogue