Rape

How to spot the warning signs abusers hide behind — and why “he seemed so normal” is never the whole story Why This Case Still Matters Dennis Rader — known …

Red flags aren’t just about individual people’s behavior. They are about systemic neglect, officials and leaders ignoring the community’s needs, systems demanding silence in the face of heightened danger, and …

Survivor Affirmation I honor my own no. I honor yours too. Real love does not ask me to abandon either one. There is something sacred in this — a person’s …

Women have historically organized around power differently. Again and again, women have sought power to create refuge rather than conquest, safety rather than supremacy, opportunity rather than control. This is …

There is nothing abstract about the blood on the floor. The room could be a delivery room. A girl’s restroom after school. A woman’s restroom after a meeting. A forensic …

updated from December 13, 2025 FGM victims’ fury as academics compare practice to cosmetic surgery Any honest critique of global efforts to address female genital mutilation must begin here: Girls’ …

Ann Rule is one of my faves. I liked her long before I started hearing about her connection to Ted Bundy. Her insight into the tragic stories she told was …

  The most dangerous thing adults can do to a child is not always hurting them directly. Sometimes it is failing to see them clearly. Sometimes it is hearing their …

Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers’ sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother’s son, we who believe in …

Before history knew her as a symbol, Mary Lumpkin was a woman. She was a mother. A Survivor. A person whose life carried both unimaginable hardship and extraordinary strength. Mary Lumpkin …