Abuse of Power

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”- Zora Neale Hurston There comes a point when ‘share everything’ sounds a lot like ‘give …

    The issue is not that women are unknowable to the state. It’s that women are often known only in fragments that are useful for administration—risk, dependency, vulnerability, compliance—while …

  The tragedy of Deanna Cook is a painful, textbook study in how a broken safety net can fail a woman who did everything right. The lawsuit filed by her …

When art holds up a mirror to the world, the reflection can be startling.   For years, people have watched stories like The Handmaid’s Tale—where a fictional society strips women …

updated from June 2025 This history is not symbolic. It is specific, embodied, and carried forward through language. For many Black American women, forced renaming has never been a side …

  Introduction The issue is not that mothers will stop being mothers in real life. Women will still carry babies through morning sickness, back pain, swelling, fear, hope, and those …

Some of us were never told that we deserved to feel safe.We were told to keep going.To be strong.To not make a scene.To forgive.To forget.To move on. So we did.We …

“Will a highly neutral parentage framework be sensitive enough to recognize unequal power, violence, coercion, reproductive abuse, and sexual assault?” If institutions are going to look women in the face …

The first step in controlling a person is often convincing them they cannot trust what they know. Violence prevention begins long before violence. It begins with protecting people’s right to …

  Control rarely begins with chains. It often begins with convincing people that their own eyes, ears, memory, and judgment cannot be trusted. History is filled with people who were …