All posts tagged "domestic violence"
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Getting Away With Murder on the Soccer Field
By Lorena Campos The recent case of South African Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius has brought a global awareness to the issue of violence against women....
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Op-Ed: A Home of Our Own: Temporary Housing and LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence
By Nicole S. Junior In 2012, twenty-one-year-old Romelle Johnson was transported by ambulance to a local Brooklyn, New York hospital.* While en route, an EMT...
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Crip Politics? Just … No
By Mark Sherry I have spent most of the last 20 years working with two main groups of disabled people: brain injury survivors and people who’ve...
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The Link Between Domestic Violence and Animal Abuse
By Sally Stevens, Elizabeth Stahmer, and Cecile McKee There is a substantial body of research showing that when a person is cruel to animals, they are...
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A Letter to Marissa Alexander
Dear Marissa, It was a cold and dark Christmas Eve—sometime in the mid 80’s. My mom, my three sisters, and I lived in a small,...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: In Every Community: LGBT Domestic Violence
By Zahara T. Hill Every 9 seconds; a phrase learned from watching several Lifetime Television movies when I was younger. Following a Lifetime movie centered...
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Violence Against Women Is Not A Cultural Tradition But A Crime
By Hope Wabuke On Tuesday, October 1, reports the India Times from Muzaffarnaga, India, two women in the Fugana village were gang raped, their homes burned to the ground...
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Domestic Violence Survivors Write to their Body Parts to Reclaim the Pieces that Make Them Whole and at Home
By Lexie Bean “Do not be afraid to put this book down. Do not be afraid to pick this book up. This book is not...
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Feminists We Love: Zerlina Maxwell (Video)
Zerlina Maxwell holds a JD from the Rutgers University School of Law and a BA in International Relations and Affairs from Tufts University. Over the...
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Justice for Marissa! Set her Free! (Read and Sign)
By Zillah Eisenstein October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Marissa Alexander was imprisoned in 2010 for 20 years after trying to defend herself from a...
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Feminist Anxiety about Domestic Violence Against Men
By Jennifer Gaboury The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was recently reauthorized after an unexpected delay — a delay that extends beyond, now routine, Republican obstructionism...
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Oscar Pistorius: Salvaging the Super Crip Narrative
That prosecutors have charged double-amputee track athlete Oscar Pistorius with the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp has made headlines throughout the world. Together with...
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“If You Are Now Saying, No, Women Are Equal…”
By Amita Chudgar The day after our teach-in, on January 24th, 2013, the airwaves and newspapers were filled with the announcement that the U.S. Pentagon...
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What We Aren’t Talking About When We Talk About Gun Control
In the wake of the Newtown shootings, the airwaves have been vibrating—often furiously—with conversations about guns. And as always in the United States, the issue...
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Kasandra Michelle Perkins: We Must Say Her Name
In the aftermath of the tragic murder of Kasandra Michelle Perkins, and the subsequent suicide of Jovan Belcher, much of the media and social...
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Forgotten Victims: Domestic Violence Among Gay Men
By Rob Stephenson Here are the words of an abuse survivor, taken from the website of a support organization: “I told him I didn’t want...
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Violence Knows No Gender
By Xoaquima Díaz I never thought I would end up in an abusive relationship. Not only because I had always considered myself smarter than that, above...
