Tag Archives: domestic violence
Five insidious victim-blaming tactics being used against Halle Berry
TweetOn Thanksgiving Halle Berry’s current boyfriend apparently fought with and badly bruised the face of Halle Berry’s ex-boyfriend and the father of her child. If you’d like more information about the situation, here is a summary of everything that happened. As dramatic and concerning as these developments are (I feel bad for pretty much everyone [...]
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Watch this video on the impossible choice faced by many undocumented women
TweetAn important new campaign called #ImHere is highlighting the terrible choice millions of immigrant women face in the United States: between keeping themselves and children safe and keeping their families together. The human rights group Breakthrough made this heartwrenching video: Click here for transcript. Norma Ortiz, an activist and former undocumented immigrant, has a story [...]
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Nikki Haley’s funding cuts to sexual assault and DV programs overturned
Tweet Last week, Nikki Haley got overzealous with her desire for Tea Party style cuts to the South Carolina budget. While, we all want to save money, she was shortsighted in the kinds of services she was cutting including almost half a million dollars of cuts to domestic violence crisis management and sexual assault prevention [...]
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Women are perpetrators of gun violence, too