History of Violence
Every act of violence is retaliatory: against systems, offenses (perceived or real), and a history of victimization. Every retaliation draws more retaliation.
How Our Investigation Into Untested DNA Evidence Helped Solve a 1983 Murder
When reporter Catherine Rentz found a 1983 article about a student who was raped and murdered, she immediately recognized the similarities to crimes committed by a serial perpetrator she’d been…
For Many Evangelical Women, Sex Comes With Pain and Anxiety
A generation of evangelical women is struggling to navigate the aftermath of purity culture Unpacking a faith you love while reconciling some of its teaching’s harms creates a natural internal…
What the B in ACAB means
the system cannot be fixed from within
Cops aren’t workers
police are used to maintain capital.
How Hollywood Is Complicit in the Violence Against Asians in America
Reducing Asians, women and sex workers to flat punchlines isn't just degrading — it's dangerous {read}
The Poetics of Mass Murder
Poems responding to past gun violence, mass murders, and school shootings.
Rebecca Solnit: Let This Flood of Women’s Stories Never Cease
There’s a problem with the way feminism moves forward in reaction to breaking news stories. It brings focus to a single predator, a single incident, and people who haven’t faced…
Hollywood’s Other ‘Open Secret’ Besides Harvey Weinstein: Preying on Young Boys
‘This is a place where adults have more direct and inappropriate connection with children than probably anywhere else in the world,’ claimed former child actor Corey Feldman.
Violent Women
I was listening to this ep of Criminal about a woman who spent 17 years in prison for killing a man who was choking her and saying he was going…