As a bisexual woman, like me, Amber Heard is statistically more likely to experience intimate partner violence than a straight woman or a lesbian. I want to start by saying, without equivocation, that I believe Amber Heard. You know this story. You’ve heard it before. You know what both sides are saying; you know what […]
Is our mass desensitization to domestic and sexual violence in sports the new normal? “You know what’s interesting?” my cousin asks over a basket of nachos at our favorite Mexican restaurant. “What?” “I’ve been thinking about all the athletes accused of domestic violence,” he says. It’s September 2014 and the second Ray Rice video—the one of […]
This originally appeared on The Daily Life. Republished here with permission. Marriage does not “save” women or protect them from the risk of violence. It is an insult to carry on this ludicrous assumption that men are best placed to protect women from other men. A few weeks ago, the Washington Post published a piece co-written […]
