Legal/Courtroom

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 …

“It was ‘that’ kind of man who harmed you, not this kind.” But how can we prevent harm in the future? What did we miss? What went wrong? The burden …

Some people are taught to believe the justice system will be waiting for them. If somebody hurts you, tell. If you have evidence, save it. Go to the police. Cooperate …

At first glance, the story of Marcia Johnson can produce a very simple conclusion. A nonprofit dedicated to helping poor people posted Samuel Scott’s $5,000 bail after he had been …

There is something about the Tremaine Carroll case that becomes clearer when we stop treating it primarily as a debate about identity and put the incarcerated women back in the …

Abuse does not always begin with a bruise. Sometimes it begins with humiliation. Sometimes it reaches for your name. In this episode of the We Survive Abuse Podcast, Tonya GJ …

There is a young Black woman at the center of the LSU sexual-assault story whose name is Kendall Francis. Before she became a viral video, a headline, a debate, or …

And here our country stands examining every uttered word of a woman who says that she was harmed……. We all exist together on a planet that seeks to correct the …

🔒 FCI Dublin forces us to ask a question about consent that reaches far beyond one prison. A woman identified publicly as Dinhora described living with continual fear while incarcerated …