Category: Victims Rights

10 Clear Signs He Doesn’t Respect You (And What Survivors Must Know About the Programming That Keeps Us Silent)
updated from Sep 28, 2025
Survival is one type of strength. Heali [...]

I Have Spent Too Many Years Listening to Women and Children to Believe That Saying Something Makes It True
I have spent more than 30 years working with women and children who ha [...]

Before He Killed Again: How Many Women Tried to Warn Us?
What I love about Octavia Spencer's production direction of "The Lost [...]

How Violence Prevention Is Treated as Worse Than the Violence Itself
When a woman asks for safety, listen to the danger she is describi [...]

Female Teachers Are Sounding the Alarm: What Are Boys Being Taught About Women, and Who Is Protecting the Girls in Their Classrooms?
What happens when a generation of girls is expected to learn alongside [...]

10 Lessons from Gordon Braxton’s Empowering Black Boys to Challenge Rape Culture
Gordon Braxton begins Empowering Black Boys to Challenge Rape Culture [...]

Rape Myth Acceptance: 10 Ways We Blame Women for Being Vulnerable Instead of Blaming People Who Exploit Them
Some ideas about sexual violence have been around so long that peopl [...]

Your Right to Choose Depends on Your Right to Know: When Romantic Deception Interferes with Consent
Which facts may another person deliberately falsify while seeking some [...]

What Women Should Know About the Tremaine Carroll Case: When Institutions Decide Women Can Absorb the Risk
There is something about the Tremaine Carroll case that becomes cleare [...]

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 [...]