Man or Bear?
Would you rather be trapped in the woods with a man or a bear? This question has beencirculating TikTok, the social media app, for weeks. While it seems like a relatively innocentquestion at first, the nuance behind it has caused ...
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The Five D’s of Bystander Intervention
Intimate partner violence- or IPV- is everywhere in the 21st century. We see it glorified all over social media, and it’s repeatedly seen in television shows, movies, books, and every other type of media that exist. While we can recognize ...
The Cycle of Abuse: Recognizing the Pattern
If you’ve ever been in an abusive relationship, you know that no one situation is the same as another. Unfortunately, however, in most abuse situations a cycle will repeat itself over and over until the survivor is ready to leave. ...
Intimate Partner Violence Within The LGBTQ+ Community
As a member of the LGBTQ+ community myself, I’ve always been curious as to why Inever heard about intimate partner violence within queer relationships. I always just assumedthat meant that there was less of it in queer spaces- that our ...
Will You Accept This Rant? Clare Crawley, Oct 20
Hello hello hello and welcome to all our readers, people who accidentally stumbled here from Twitter, and a special hello to all the people who were just admiring our incredible new website design and just happened to end up at ...
Who matters?
Who matters when we think about domestic violence and sexual assault? Who are we protecting and who do we silence? Over the course of the last few months, our country has been forced into a reckoning of whose pain is ...
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness
Hey all you cool cats and kittens! We’ll admit it, we jumped on the bandwagon and dove deep into the wild world of Tiger King – and as always, we have some thoughts (Spoilers coming—but if you haven’t seen the ...
We’re not safe.
Content Warning: discussion of domestic violence and murder . . . . . A DeKalb County man recently returned to the area fleeing California after allegedly shooting another man to death. (Links to local reporting on the crime HERE and HERE). Mark Sypien had a host ...
Stalking Awareness Month
January is National Stalking Awareness Month. How many of us would recognize the signs of stalking or feel confident that we'd know what to do? Do we think of stalking as a "James Bond-style" incident? A stranger in an unmarked ...
