Tag Archives: intimate partner violence
Quick Hit: Samhita on Chris Brown, Steve Harvey, and dating advice
TweetChris Brown, who famously beat his then-girlfriend Rihanna, has been cast as the male lead in the film adaptation of Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, the dating advice book by Steve Harvey, who is currently being charged with emotional abuse as part of divorce proceedings. Over at AlterNet our very own Executive [...]
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Not Oprah’s Book Club: The Revolution Starts at Home
TweetThe Revolution Starts at Home, a new anthology from South End Press and Editors Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha tries to address a really difficult and often unspoken problem: intimate violence within activist communities. The book addresses the reality that being activists, being progressive, having radical politics, does not shield one from [...]
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Props to the Aussie government: The Line campaign
TweetThe Australian government recently launched a campaign called The Line, designed to educate young people about healthy romantic relationships and the role that technology can play in bullying and abuse. The campaign makes it clear that though some things are illegal clearly “over the line,” like violence, rape and abuse, other lines are blurry and [...]
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Tell VP Joe Biden your ideas for preventing sexual assault and dating violence