violence

Dr. Luke is Overshadowing a Woman’s Accomplishment. Again.

Doja Cat, a South African woman with short, brown hair, performs on stage in a red outfit

by Evette Dionne

May 12, 2020 at 4:39pm

Though Dr. Luke should be a pariah in the music industry, he’s instead credited as one of the producers on “Say So.”

Joe Biden, an elderly white man with short, gray hair, stands behind a podium and squints at the camera

This One’s for Tara: A Rape-Revenge Fantasy Amid an Impossible Reality

by Aya de Leon

April 28, 2020 at 4:23pm

We can’t undo what Tara Reade suffered in 1993. But we can demand a better world as restorative justice. Read more »

Joe Biden, an elderly white man with short, gray hair, stands behind a podium while wearing a blue blazer

Joe Biden Has Been Accused of Rape. Now What?

by Wagatwe Wanjuki

April 27, 2020 at 11:05am

This trend of gaslighting victims of assault, including Tara Reade, silences them while functioning in a mythical world where America didn’t elect a self-confessed sexual predator. Read more »

Wearing an all black outfit and with dark hair and bangs, Kesha sings on stage.

Taking the High Road: Kesha’s Music Creates a Path of Healing for Survivors

by Olivia Zayas Ryan

March 23, 2020 at 1:47pm

You do not have to be defined by something that was done to you. Read more »

Harvey Weinstein, an older white man, hunches over a walker as he walks into court

Consent, Assault, and Harvey Weinstein’s Walker

by Imani Barbarin

March 2, 2020 at 10:54am

Disabled folk are as necessary to the dialogue around bodily autonomy as anyone else, and society needs to evaluate its continuous stereotypes of people with disabilities that prohibit us from being seen—fully. Read more »

Diane Nguyen, a Vietnamese woman, is talking to BoJack outside at a party

An Ode to Diane Nguyen, Depressed Feminist Writer

by Rachel Charlene Lewis

February 10, 2020 at 4:23pm

“You’re responsible for your own happiness.” Read more »

Victoria Pedretti and Penn Badgley star as Love and Joe, a white couple standing together in a kitchen, in You

Sinister Niceness: On “You,” Killers Don’t Change their Spots

by Evette Dionne

January 8, 2020 at 1:35pm

If Season 2 is any indication, we have no choice but to overlook the obvious in favor of granting white men an inherent innocence; it’s a default. Read more »

abstract illustration of a person kneeling with their head in their hands, figures on the sides of the body, while another figure, lined with dots, is leans over them. decorative elements such as snakes and florals line the edges.

(Un)Spoken Truths: Cousins Grace and Roslyn Talusan on the Healing Power of Storytelling

by Roslyn Talusan

December 2, 2019 at 1:26pm

Everything in our culture would like us to repress trauma, and shame is at the core of this. Read more »

a placard in British Columbia, Canada, warns Indigenous women and girls about hitchhiking along the Trail of Tears

Racism and Apathy along the “Highway of Tears”

by Abaki Beck

November 27, 2019 at 3:13pm

How long will families be forced to relive the trauma of their loved ones death or disappearance, with empty promises of justice? Read more »

Admitted 'Preppie Killer' Robert Chambers (center), a white man, walks out of Auburn Prison February 14, 2003 in Auburn, New York.

Dead Wrong: AMC’s “The Preppy Murder” Revisits a Shameful Perversion of Justice

by Andi Zeisler

November 27, 2019 at 1:03pm

Women’s lives, their senses of self, their career options, and their public images remain collateral when it comes time to uphold those same things for the men who harmed them. Read more »