Domestic Abuse

At first glance, the story of Marcia Johnson can produce a very simple conclusion. A nonprofit dedicated to helping poor people posted Samuel Scott’s $5,000 bail after he had been …

There are cases that remind us why understanding domestic violence cannot be limited to advocates, shelter workers, police officers, or women who have already lived through it. Everybody needs to …

There is a familiar sentence that appears whenever violence against Black women becomes impossible to ignore: “Black women don’t talk.” Sometimes it is said with concern. Sometimes frustration. Sometimes it …

updated from January 2026 I’ve served the women who responded to violence and were facing harsher punishment than any man would have for the same crime. No one was willing …

Abuse does not always begin with a bruise. Sometimes it begins with humiliation. Sometimes it reaches for your name. In this episode of the We Survive Abuse Podcast, Tonya GJ …

In a 2023 BBC Newsnight interview, Mel B was asked whether she herself would call police to report domestic abuse. She said she would not, explaining: “I wouldn’t, because I …

A survey has found “deep mistrust” towards police from black women who have been victims of abuse. The findings from the charity Sistah Space show that almost all black women …

updated from July 31, 2025 The Space Was Never the Argument. The Entitlement Was. Survivor Affirmation Every woman deserves a space that stays hers. Not conditional. Not negotiable. Not something …

Stalking can be difficult to explain because any single incident may look small when separated from everything around it. A car passes your house. Someone sends flowers. Your ex appears …

Try not to measure an older woman’s courage by doors that had not been built yet. In 1968, *Lorraine is twenty-five years old with two little children and a husband …