Domestic Violence

Updated from June 8, 2025 No matter the group of men who disregard female humanity—who they like, who they don’t like, what they like- the tactics of misogynistic males remain …

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 …

Some of us fell in love with The Joy Luck Club before we ever saw the movie. We carried Amy Tan’s women around in our heads. Mothers. Daughters. Women trying …

I thought I knew Sylvia Plath. I swear I did. I mean how you “know” a person you study. I liked her work, and time and again I answered college-level …

  There are many ways to hide violence. A locked door will do it. So will money, shame, family loyalty, professional prestige, religious authority, fear and a community determined not …

updated from March 24 2025   Interesting fact: Before his murders were discovered, serial killer Ted Bundy volunteered at a suicide crisis hotline in Seattle called the Seattle Crisis Clinic in 1971. The …

In the real world, on this planet we live on, the female-sexed body may have to navigate menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, sexual vulnerability, intimate medical care, privately undressing, religious practice …

updated from November 7, 2023 Some advocates for women and girls are not pleased with how we are talking about strangulation. Strangulation is often viewed as a very casual thing …