violence

It takes extraordinary arrogance to approach grown women as if we are strangers to our own existence. Something has been bothering me about the way some of our leaders discuss race …

I watched Season 2 of Reasonable Doubt with two sets of eyes. I watched as a viewer who wanted a good story. But I also watched as an advocate who …

updated from January 2026 I’ve served the women who responded to violence and were facing harsher punishment than any man would have for the same crime. No one was willing …

  updated from March 23 2025 There is a familiar pattern in history. Women organize. Women speak. Women document harm. Women build shelters, create opportunities, change laws, and fight for …

Updated from June 8, 2025 No matter the group of men who disregard female humanity—who they like, who they don’t like, what they like- the tactics of misogynistic males remain …

updated from May 1 2025 UPDATE: I Learned More About Kitty Genovese I originally published this post in May 2025. At the time, I repeated a version of the Kitty …

updated from March 24 2025   Interesting fact: Before his murders were discovered, serial killer Ted Bundy volunteered at a suicide crisis hotline in Seattle called the Seattle Crisis Clinic in 1971. The …

Submission is not always announced by the word “submit.” Sometimes submission arrives dressed in the moral vocabulary of its era. Yesterday it might have been obey your husband. Today it might …

I do not owe anyone a smaller truth so they can maintain a larger lie. Absolutely no woman deserves to be harmed because she spoke a truth somebody did not …

Her name was Marzieh Nieri. She was 23 years old. Marzieh said she fought back when a man attempted to sexually assault her. The man died from his injuries. Iranian …