Category: Relationships
When Someone Decides What You Will Be Called: Name Control as a Tactic of Abuse
Your name is one of the first things you learn belongs to you.That [...]
When He Keeps Calling You Names: Name-Calling Can Be a Tactic of Abuse
Sometimes abuse announces itself with a threat.Sometimes it starts [...]
Humiliation Is an Abuse Tactic: When Someone Keeps Trying to Make You Feel Small
Some people try to control women by frightening us.Others discover [...]
The Invisible Glue: 10 Ways Women Are Taught to Hold Together What Should Be Allowed to Break
updated from January 2026I've served the women who responded to vi [...]
When Someone Tries to Humiliate You and Take Your Name: Two Abuse Tactics Survivors Should Know (audio ep)
Abuse does not always begin with a bruise. Sometimes it begins with hu [...]
Spice Girls’ Mel B says she wouldn’t call police over domestic abuse – BBC Newsnight
In a 2023 BBC Newsnight interview, Mel B was asked whether she herself [...]
10 Things to Know About the Crime of Stealthing featuring MadameNoire
The research literature usually calls it nonconsensual condom removal [...]
Mariska Hargitay is Rape Survivor and It Took Her Years to Process That (video)
Mariska Hargitay has said she was raped by a man she considered a frie [...]
Drug-Facilitated Rape: What Women Need to Know About Ketamine, Alcohol and Emerging Drugs
For years, women were warned about the “date-rape drug.” Watch your dr [...]
If Every Man Gets to Ask Women Why She Said No, Where Does It End?
There is an age when "Why?" is one of the sweetest and most exhausting [...]