violence

Backtalk: This is What White-Supremacist Terrorism Looks Like

Donald Trump, the white president of the United States, delivers a speech from behind a podium

by Amy Lam

August 8, 2019 at 2:52pm

This week, Dahlia and Amy are heartbroken over the spate of mass murders at the hands of white men with assault weapons. They talk about the importance of naming the acts of violence as white supremacist terrorism and how marginalized people across all communuties are left vulnerable. Plus, we take a moment to celebrate the life and work of Toni Morrison, whose words and stories have forever shifted how we understand our world—for the better.

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We Have a Gun Problem—and It’s on Politicians, Not the Mentally Ill

by Kendall Brown

August 7, 2019 at 12:45pm

As gun violence continues to skyrocket, the GOP is looking everywhere but inward on their quest to find someone to blame. Read more »

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Value Judgments: A Focus on “Good” Perpetrators is Bad for Victims

by Caroline Reilly

July 10, 2019 at 5:00pm

We need a reckoning in the courts—and beyond. Read more »

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The “Claws” Effect: “Good Girls” Is More Than a Guilty Pleasure

by Candice Frederick

April 26, 2019 at 11:23am

These women are more concerned about paying their mortgages, caring for their children, and fighting complicated custody battles than facing consequences. Read more »

Vivien Green Fryd Charts the Feminist Artists Who’ve Painted #MeToo for Decades

by Dahlia Balcazar

April 23, 2019 at 10:59am

Against Our Will challenges us to witness without looking away, exploring sexual violence as a discrete subject of American art with unflinching analysis. Read more »

Building Trust: #MeToo and Media’s Responsibility to Survivors

by Roslyn Talusan

April 18, 2019 at 9:00am

Publications need to build trust with survivors so that their stories can be told. Read more »

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Believe Me: Genderqueer and Nonbinary Survivors on Visibility and Identity

by Lexie Bean

April 16, 2019 at 9:00am

Those living at the intersection of nonbinary and survivor are forced to reconcile with others reshaping their bodies and needs. Read more »

Punishment Is Not Justice: Defying Definitions After Sexual Violence

by Wendy C. Ortiz

April 10, 2019 at 8:09am

We need to move beyond binary survivor-perpetrator framing. Read more »

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Gray Matters: How Rape in Pop Culture Became a Matter of Opinion

by Kate Harding

April 3, 2019 at 11:32am

Time and again, we refuse to believe that people who commit sexual violence specifically get off on the lack of consent, casting them instead as “good boys” confounded by the complex rules of dating in our modern world. Read more »

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In the Frame: Artemisia Gentileschi, the Artist Who Broke the Mold

by Polly Allen

March 25, 2019 at 9:00am

My ultimate empowered female art heroine is a woman who made a career for herself long before the word “feminist” was in use. Read more »

Politician, feminist, and human rights activist Marielle Franco

Marielle, Presente!: A Movement Remembers

by Nicole Froio

March 14, 2019 at 9:00am

Though Marielle Franco was brutally murdered for her politics, we refuse to let the racialized misogynist violence that took her body also take her memory and legacy. Read more »