Tag: domestic violence

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