Abuse

Emotional abuse can be difficult to explain in a society that struggles to respect women’s safety boundaries in the first place. So much of emotional abuse involves someone knowing what …

I heard about this tragedy, and I thought it was the end of the court case….. An appellate court overturned a manslaughter conviction after finding that relevant facts were improperly …

Why women’s refusal, independence, and desire for safety are so often treated as offenses against men. There is something deeply troubling about a man hearing a woman say no and …

What happens when a generation of girls is expected to learn alongside boys who are being taught to regard them as lesser human beings? What female teachers are describing deserves …

A woman does not become hateful because she refuses to believe what someone else believes. Her mind is not public property, and her agreement is not a debt she owes. …

  Woman Lured Her ‘Baby-Daddy’’s Rape Accuser Into Kidnapping, Prosecutors Say · City Cast DC There is a fairytale version of society hiding behind the question, “Why didn’t she report?” …

What the histories of convicted violent offenders teach us about sexual privacy, stalking, consent, and taking women’s reports seriously. A woman notices someone standing outside her bedroom window. Perhaps she …

There are renewed calls to ask a question American colleges have heard before: Why not get rid of fraternities? The question is back amid the uproar at Cornell over allegations …

“It was ‘that’ kind of man who harmed you, not this kind.” But how can we prevent harm in the future? What did we miss? What went wrong? The burden …

Victimized vs. Victimization Victimization describes an experience, act, process, or condition in which someone is harmed, exploited, abused, targeted, deprived of rights, or subjected to wrongdoing. Victimization tells us what …