Femicide

  The tragedy of Deanna Cook is a painful, textbook study in how a broken safety net can fail a woman who did everything right. The lawsuit filed by her …

When a man kills three women over his lifetime, the system did not just fail once. It failed over and over. It was designed this way. Not all men will …

It was just past midnight on a Sunday in May 2003 when fifteen-year-old Sakia Gunn stood at a Newark bus corner, laughing with her friends. She was coming back from …

There are wounds that don’t stop bleeding just because the headlines fade.There are names that deserve to be spoken with reverence—not only in tragedy, but in truth. We know Amiri …

  Remember that race where the person winning started celebrating ….but forgot to officially cross the finish line and win the race? And then the person in second place came …

Some people do not attack women’s boundaries directly. They fog them. They turn a woman’s “no” into a debate. They turn her caution into “overreacting.” They turn her discomfort into …

  Before we talk about solutions, we have to be honest about the danger. Women and girls are not imagining this. We are not being “too fearful.” We are not …

Every month, an average of more than 70 women in the United States are shot and killed by an intimate partner. Everytownreasearch.org | based on analysis of CDC National Violent Death …

When an abuser stops caring that people know, a restraint has fallen away. Shame is no longer holding him back. Reputation is no longer enough to contain him. That can …

We can’t have an honest conversation about why our grandmothers—and their mothers before them—often prescribed silence in the face of pain without acknowledging the brutal truth: women who dared to …