At some point, complacency feels like betrayal. It is exhausting and deeply painful to be a witness to complacency around violence and abuse. Complacency is an enemy to progress and…
I’m sorry. People talk as if women’s safety is something governments eventually “figure out,” like a policy glitch that just needs an update. History doesn’t tell that story. It tells…
We have made a choice. Not quietly.Not accidentally.Not without consequence. We have chosen to be a nation that does not guarantee authentic and truthful mental health care around the clock.That…
Let me say this plainly, first and always: What Noel Stevens did was horrific.Shauna Tiaffay is the victim.Her children are victims.Nothing about this conversation excuses violence.Nothing shifts responsibility away from…
To be clear: People are not going to always feel seen. This is a huge planet. We are specifically talking about spaces, and conversations around violence, abuse, and Survivors….but harm…
INVESTIGATIVE: One stalking victim’s mother speaks after man kills woman, sets himself on fire Stalking is often dismissed as “harassment” or brushed off as “creepy behavior.” But for many girls…
In 2010, Florida boxer Yathomas Riley was arrested after his then-girlfriend, Koketia King, was shot in the head inside his Miami apartment.Riley claimed it was self-inflicted. King survived the shooting…
Karla Brada Mendez thought that she was getting a second chance on life when she started going to AA meetings. But instead she met Eric Allen Earle, an AA old-timer…
She called me because I was serving as her victim advocate: His family is mad at me and now I’m so confused. “He is trying to change but sometimes he…
A man “changes”. Why do we women receive this as our “marching orders”? Do men do this? NO. They treat our changes and transformations as our personal issues. They barely…