Legal/Courtroom

You don’t have to worry about who we women are—since you don’t seem to know—because we are not the people behind the violence. Men need not keep speaking publicly about …

I am interested in hearing from the men who are willing to challenge male violence with the same confidence they use to challenge women’s refusal. What are men going to …

When people discuss Jeffrey Marsalis, they often describe him as a “prolific rapist.” I don’t like that word because it doesn’t capture the full truth about criminals and harm. It …

If your vision of justice requires Black women to accept more danger, you have not finished thinking about justice. When Black women ask to be protected, we are not asking …

When you are a woman—an adult female human being who has overlapping disabilities that all intersect with being a woman—it gets extremely challenging to keep hearing your existence trivialized. I’m …

Swatting a rape Survivor should be treated as a serious criminal offense, with enhanced penalties when the act is intended to intimidate, threaten, or retaliate against her for reporting sexual …

What I love about Octavia Spencer’s production direction of “The Lost Women of Highway 20” is that she intentionally spotlighted all the missed opportunities, when people chose not to listen …

Why women’s refusal, independence, and desire for safety are so often treated as offenses against men. There is something deeply troubling about a man hearing a woman say no and …

The crime was the perpetrator’s choice, not the victim’s failure to behave perfectly. There is something deeply troubling about the way we expect women and girls to behave after sexual …

What the histories of convicted violent offenders teach us about sexual privacy, stalking, consent, and taking women’s reports seriously. A woman notices someone standing outside her bedroom window. Perhaps she …