Tag: domestic violence

“Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?”

How reporting domestic violence works against women in family court.

Bernice L. McFadden ruminates on all the things her mother has endured only to find herself spending her golden years in the midst of a deadly plague and state-sanctioned racism.

The silence that once protected one woman from memories of her abusive ex-boyfriend and further abuse was now the silence she needed to free herself from.

Envy over her success led her husband, also a writer, to become violent. She fights every day for her safety — and to avoid being relegated to obscurity like so many writers who are mothers.

“She was always afraid of my voice. That was the defining factor of our relationship — fear of what I would say and write and do. She’s afraid of … the narrative that I possess.”

An anthropologist on a return visit to a remote village in Papua New Guinea learns that all the village’s young men are terribly wounded.

“I’ll put myself through the jokes and everything as long as I can shine a light on domestic violence and sexual assault and marital rape.”

Yvonne Conza wrestles with the complexities of estrangement from her dying — complicated — dad.

Hafizah Geter contemplates the personal and cultural legacy of violence against Black bodies.

A network of women like Mily Treviño-Sauceda and Valentina are helping Latina farm-worker women escape domestic violence and abuses at work, learn their rights, and connect with social services.

Brian Gresko considers the lingering consequences when the only touches between father and son are abusive ones.

An examination of a domestic violence case.

Emily Van Duyne wonders why Sylvia Plath’s accounts of Ted Hughes’s violence toward her have been so frequently dismissed or minimized.

An excerpt from “Estranged: Leaving Family and Finding Home,” by Jessica Berger Gross.

Katherine Laidlaw recalls an abusive relationship in which her boyfriend threatened her with a boxcutter.

In a short essay for Time, playwright and activist Eve Ensler writes about simultaneously understanding many women’s difficulty calling out abusive fathers—like her own and alleged rapist Bill Cosby—and being frustrated with a culture that protects beloved, powerful patriarchs while vilifying and portraying as liars the women who speak out against them: I think of […]

He sometimes barks when asked to bend his principles, the ones he learned from his late father, a U.S. senator. He gets enraged when someone, even an owner, tarnishes the integrity of the game or challenges his judgment. Many players and union leaders talk about his failure of accountability. “Right now the league office and […]

“Escape.” Natasha Gardner, 5280 Magazine