Category: Violence Against Women

10 Reasons to Be Outraged about Harvey Marcelin: How the System Protected a Killer Instead of Women
When a man kills three women over his lifetime, the system did [...]

How People Prompt or Lure Women to Prove Their Worth
"Why doesn't she leave? Why did she go back?"
We don't spen [...]

Lucy Diggs Slowe: She Protected Us in Silence So We Could One Day Speak
“Because boundaried spaces don’t build themselves—someone has [...]

The Murder of Sakia Gunn: Why the World Looked Away, and Why Her Community Refused to Forget
It was just past midnight on a Sunday in May 2003 when fifteen [...]

Grief That Echoes: Honoring the Women Amiri Baraka Lost to Violence
There are wounds that don’t stop bleeding just because the [...]

We Are Not Trespassing: Black Disability and the Right to Simply Live
We Are Not Trespassing. We Are Living.
There is a kind of [...]

12 Similarities Between Josephine Baker and Megan Thee Stallion
Make your own choices. Live your own life. But w [...]

Human Beings Were Enslaved Here in the US
You have no idea how much that 1% and 2% who owned slaves ma [...]

15 Ways Oppression Keeps Control Over Women, Even After Women Make Progress
It changes its name.It stops saying, “Control women,” [...]

10 Times Oppression Against Women Fought to Keep Its Power
Oppression against women does not always disappear whe [...]