Category: Female Health and Safety
Your Right to Choose Depends on Your Right to Know: When Romantic Deception Interferes with Consent
Which facts may another person deliberately falsify while seeking some [...]
The Brochure Says “We Take Your Safety Seriously.” But What Happens When a Survivor Actually Reports?
Institutions know how to write beautiful promises.“We take all rep [...]
Before We Ask Why Black Women Don’t Talk, We Need to Ask What Happens When They Do
There is a familiar sentence that appears whenever violence against Bl [...]
When Someone Tries to Humiliate You and Take Your Name: Two Abuse Tactics Survivors Should Know (audio ep)
Abuse does not always begin with a bruise. Sometimes it begins with hu [...]
Things to Understand About the LSU Sexual Assault Case, and the Young Black Woman at the Center of It
There is a young Black woman at the center of the LSU sexual-assault s [...]
When Women Have to Soften the Language of Safety: 10 Ways Policing Women’s Words Can Undermine Sexual-Violence Prevention
And here our country stands examining every uttered word of a woman wh [...]
Spice Girls’ Mel B says she wouldn’t call police over domestic abuse – BBC Newsnight
In a 2023 BBC Newsnight interview, Mel B was asked whether she herself [...]
You Cannot Understand Women Through Shallow Stereotypes About Women
I thought about a woman I once served today. Back when I was servi [...]
Sistah Space Survey : Why are Black Victims of Domestic Abuse Not Speaking Up?
A survey has found "deep mistrust" towards police from black women who [...]
10 Things to Know About the Crime of Stealthing featuring MadameNoire
The research literature usually calls it nonconsensual condom removal [...]