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White Males & Gun Violence via Tumblr: “In less than 10 days, the number of women and children killed will exceed the number of people–children and women and Lanza himself–lost on Friday. The same culture that results in so many unplanned, domestic, gun-enabled murders–part of 15,000 single victim homicides a year–is the one that [...]
Justice for Amina - #RIPAmina On March 10th a young woman in Morocco committed suicide. This in and of itself is sad however, Amina Filali was sixteen years old, a victim of rape and underage marriage, and married by her fathers’ will to her rapist. After her death there was a global outcry against what happened. There also were reports that [...]
– DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE 1-800-650-6522 – Time and time again we hear it on the news, at home, at work, the Dr’s office… “Woman was beat to death by her spouse…” or on a more personal level you’re bound to hear comments casually thrown out as if a fact.. “She Must like it” “Le [...]
You may be able to relate to this story: When I was in elementary school I was not cool. In fact there were only two kids who were considered even more uncool than I was: Jim and Ana. Jim was short and clumsy and Ana was overweight. One day when our classes merged for [...]
My husband, Bobby, walked out of his workplace one afternoon and was shocked by what he saw…a young man was hitting a young woman. In public. No one was coming to her aid. At great risk to himself, my husband intervened by physically separating the man and woman, yelling at the man to stop. [...]
Her words, her voice… “He loves me… I just have a big mouth and you know it… he is just stressed out… he didn’t mean to… he said sorry… mind your own business! I love him though… I don’t think I can go back to him, he choked me when I tried to leave [...]
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