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Why the Conversation About Domestic Violence Needs to Change
“Why does she stay?”
It's a question outsiders continue to ask about those in abusive relationships. The situation may seem black and white to many: If someone is assaulting you, then you should leav...
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Why I Stayed In an Abusive Relationship — and How I Finally Left
"Why doesn't she just leave her abusive partner?"
It seems like a simple question and it's one that's often posed when people learn others are experiencing abuse. Leaving seems like the most obvious ...
WMC News & Features
Activists organize for women's rights in Armenia
The Women’s Resource Center of Armenia is leading a small but growing movement, working for domestic violence laws, women’s health, education, and more.
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The Real Reason <em>Fifty Shades Of Grey</em> Is Sexist
I first heard about Fifty Shades of Grey on NPR when I was 15. It was the tail end of the story, and all that I could glean was the name, that it was an immensely popular work of fiction, and that it...
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December 30, 2014 | Chloe Hallinan |
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
Media,
Race/Ethnicity,
Violence against women
A Eulogy for Misty Upham
It was recently reported that Misty Upham, an actress best known for her work in Frozen River and August Osage County, was found dead in a ravine. It was later revealed that her death was caused by bl...
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Dear Dad: Let's Try This Again
This article is a response to Pippa Biddle’s call to action in her piece “Dear Sisters,” published last week on Ryot.com.
To whom it may concern (hey, Dad):
The summer after my freshman year at Exeter...
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September 14, 2014 | Trip E |
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
Media,
Misogyny,
Sports,
Violence against women
#WhyIStayed: Understanding Domestic Violence
On March 27th, 2014, former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice was arrested and indicted for third-degree aggravated assault. He had punched his fiancee, Janay Palmer, in the face, knocking her un...
WMC Women Under Siege
August 21, 2014 | Lauren Wolfe |
Violence against women
The Index: The Cost of Violence Against Women
Cost of sexualized and domestic violence in the U.S. estimated per year in 2003, in billions: 5.8 ... Overall cost of health care in this estimate, in billions: 4.1 ... Cost of rape in this estimate, in millions: 319 ...
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Sexism and Soccer Balls
The other day my friend asked me if I thought a true feminist can support the World Cup. Until this year, I probably would have immediately answered yes: I just associated the World Cup with a somewha...
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July 06, 2014 | Maya Richard-Craven |
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
Health,
Media,
Violence against women
What's Your 'Weapon Of Choice?'
It was not your typical walk of shame, like the kind you see in high school movies after someone loses their virginity. Instead, it was me, an athletic-looking African-American girl, sobbing my way do...
WMC Women Under Siege
Exposing the secret of domestic abuse in Egypt
It wasn’t easy growing up as a teenage Muslim girl, with a father who thought he owned your body just because he put a roof over your head or food on the table. Not just that—this was a Muslim man who perverted the teachings of his own religion to justify the sexual abuse that he inflicted upon me, his own daughter.
WMC Women Under Siege
‘The system is designed to make you give up’: An American tackles domestic violence in China
Kim Lee met Li Yang on a trip to China in 1999, when he was lecturing about “Crazy English,” a way of learning the language that involved overcoming inhibitions through shouting slogans such as “Conquer English to Make China Stronger!”
WMC Women Under Siege
Where sisterhood ends: The victim in your own home
When the case of a 23-year-old Indonesian domestic worker made international headlines, readers were shocked to hear of the physical abuse that left the once vibrant young woman nearly disabled. But just as shocking to the international community was the subsequent revelation that her employer—a 40-year-old mother of two—had been charged with the attacks.
WMC Women Under Siege
Measuring self-worth in units of male approval: Marriage in India
While women’s rights in India have begun to make news this year, we are barely off the starting line yet. The news includes domestic and international outrage over the gang rapes of strangers, but these make up a very small percentage of the sexual attacks in the country. In India, more than 90 percent of rapes are committed by people known to the victim, according to a 2012 report by India’s National Crime Records Bureau.
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Recovering from an Abusive Relationship
After I escaped my abusive relationship I overexerted and exhausted myself at my own expense for the sake of resolving public opinion. I felt I needed to explain why I had been behaving so differently...
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On Eradicating Violence Against Women
My college’s office of sexual assault prevention recently hosted a talk by Leslie Morgan Steiner. Steiner, a Harvard graduate, TED talk speaker, and author of Crazy Love, spoke about her experience...
WMC Women Under Siege
The Index: Sexualized Violence at Home
Percent of women worldwide who have experienced either intimate partner violence or non-partner sexualized violence in their lifetime: 35. Perpetrators of rape of women since age 18 that are men (as a percent): 100
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August 18, 2013 | Sophia M |
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
Science and tech,
Violence against women
How Feminism Brought Me Back
I used to dance and climb trees and sing loudly and run around like a wild child. I say “used to” and you probably think I mean when I was four or five, but I mean up until around a year ago, when I w...
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Saturday Vids: Ana "Rokafella" Garcia -- Pioneer Break Dancer
The latest episode of Makers features Ana "Rokafella" Garcia, who broke down gender barriers in the world of break dancing. “It’s very limiting to see a woman always in a thong shaking her butt, that’...
WMC Women Under Siege
Forgotten girls: How one child in Yemen is drawing attention to underage marriage
Eight million people and counting have watched a video featuring an 11-year-old Yemeni girl named Nada al-Ahdal. From what looks like the seat of a car, she talks about why she left home because, she says, her parents tried to marry her off. Al-Ahdal talks about the “innocence of children” and the consequences—including suicide—of being force-married to an older man at such a young age.
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Attention People With Body Parts
My name is Lexie and I am the Founder and Creative Director of Attention: People With Body Parts, an international body-positive initiative with an emphasis on book-making, letter-writing, and collabo...
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Why I Shared my Abortion Story With North Carolina Law Makers
My voice was trembling when I spoke the words “I decided to choose abortion.” I was telling my personal story and expressing my opposition of House Bill 695, a bill that would shut down all but one ab...
WMC Women Under Siege
From Morocco to Denmark: Rape survivors around the world are forced to marry attackers
In March 2012, a 16-year-old girl named Amina Filali killed herself by drinking rat poison. She had been raped and forced—by Moroccan law—to marry the man who had raped her.
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April 14, 2013 | Jenny P |
Disability,
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
Girls,
Health,
Violence against women,
WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
Time to Talk
*Trigger warning: This blog post is about intimate partner violence*
Over fall break, my mom made an unexpected visit from California to New York City, where I go to school. She had been called the n...
WMC Women Under Siege
Gloria Steinem challenges BBC presenter on violence against women
On Tuesday, Gloria Steinem, who originated WMC’s Women Under Siege, spoke to BBC “Hardtalk” presenter Stephen Sackur about the women’s movement. But I wanted to do more than point you to the video (which you can watch here) and highlight something I found particularly interesting about their chat.