Qs to Help You Unpack Your Assumptions About Rape and Abuse

September 19, 2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

What unconscious beliefs do you hold about domestic abuse and sexual violence?

The Johnny Depp Defamation Trial Will Hurt Abuse Victims for Decades to Come

May 18, 2022.Reading time 20 minutes.

Seeing Heard’s behavior picked apart, and watching Depp and his supporters frame her as the true abuser, will only make victims more confused and ashamed.

What Is “Love Bombing”?

January 22, 2022.Reading time 3 minutes.

Abusers can use love bombing as a way to destabilize partners and convince them to stay.

To Read In Case I Am Ever Murdered By a Man

November 20, 2018.Reading time 12 minutes.

Here is where you can find evidence of motive and intent so that no one tries to erase the role of misogyny in my death.

I went to the Outlander premiere, where everyone laughed at domestic violence

April 5, 2015.Reading time 12 minutes.

I’m sitting in the beautiful Ziegfeld Theater in midtown Manhattan, watching a woman be beaten with a belt. The audience around me is laughing, clapping, and whistling. My plus one winces as he watches the scene through his fingers. I listen to the delighted howls echoing through the theater and wonder if I am missing […]

Stop asking me for TED Talk recommendations

October 5, 2014.Reading time 7 minutes.

I’ve been working for TED for about six weeks now, and one of the first questions people ask me is, What’s your favorite TED talk? And then after that, What talk should I watch? These are both hard questions to answer. TED’s collection is massive and incredible; I often fall into spirals where one video leads to another […]