Home Was a Nightmare, Then Home Was Prison. Finally Home Is Now a Refuge.
A radical housing program in the San Francisco Bay is recognizing how women who killed their abusers deserve dignity—and a second chance.
A radical housing program in the San Francisco Bay is recognizing how women who killed their abusers deserve dignity—and a second chance.
Marisa Endicott Mother Jones Oct 2021 25min Permalink
Shared parenting is usually better for children—but the model fails for many women forced to co-parent with their abusers.
Megan O’Matz ProPublica Sep 2021 25min Permalink
On the Camino de Santiago, a female pilgrim walks in solitude—utterly vulnerable, utterly free.
Aube Rey Lescure Guernica Jul 2021 20min Permalink
Can face-to-face meetings between a victim and an abuser—a form of restorative justice—help a society overwhelmed with bad behavior?
Amelia Schonbek The Cut Jul 2021 30min Permalink
Many of the 230,000 women and girls in U.S. jails and prisons were abuse survivors before they entered the system. And at least 30 percent of those serving time on murder or manslaughter charges were protecting themselves or a loved one from physical or sexual violence.
Justine van der Leun The New Republic Dec 2020 35min Permalink
Christina Kim risked everything to escape North Korea’s entrenched gender violence. She almost didn’t make it.
Annie Hylton Guernica Nov 2020 20min Permalink
After Hurricane Maria, the number of women killed by their partners doubled. Survivors say the government’s misguided response has put more lives in danger.
Andrea González-Ramírez Gen Jun 2020 30min Permalink
When a writer’s husband became violent, her career threatened to vanish along with her safety.
Texans receiver DeAndre Hopkins says he owes his career to his mom. When you hear her remarkable story of survival, you’ll understand his devotion.
Mina Kimes ESPN Oct 2019 15min Permalink
Dozens of convicted criminals have been hired as cops in Alaska communities. Often, they are the only applicants. In Stebbins, every cop has a criminal record, including the chief.
Kyle Hopkins Anchorage Daily News Jul 2019 20min Permalink
A profile of Lorena Bobbitt.
Amy Chozick The New York Times Jan 2019 15min Permalink
A group of Latina women across the country have been working in secret, turning their homes into shelters for abused immigrant women.
Lizzie Presser California Sunday Oct 2018 15min Permalink
His rise to the top of the Billboard charts coincides with a list of criminal charges, including domestic battery by strangulation, false imprisonment, and aggravated battery of a pregnant woman.
Tarpley Hitt Miami New Times Jun 2018 25min Permalink
Dominick Dunne’s account of the trial of his daughter’s murderer.
Dominick Dunne Vanity Fair Mar 1984 1h Permalink
A reporter on her way out of India probes a case of a woman beaten to death by her husband in public.
Ellen Barry New York Times Aug 2017 Permalink
A young journalist spent her days covering sexual assault and domestic violence. Then she became the story.
Lisa Gregoire Eighteen Bridges Dec 2015 20min Permalink
The road to Lhakpa Sherpa’s seventh potential summit has been nothing if not complicated.
Grayson Schaffer Outside May 2016 20min Permalink
“Offhand, there are maybe three times in my life I can clearly recall laughing at something really terrible. One: when my mother told me my grandfather had a heart attack. Two: when a friend and I were driving to Cape Cod and a huge bird careened into the windshield, instantly bonking itself dead. Three: when my friends tried to keep me from going home from a party because they thought my boyfriend might kill me.”
Julieanne Smolinski New York Jan 2016 10min Permalink
On May 12, 2014, Nicole Holder told Charlotte police that she had been assaulted by Greg Hardy. He was arrested, charged, and convicted. Then the case was dismissed on appeal. After a season out of the league, Hardy is playing for the Dallas Cowboys. Owner Jerry Jones has called him a “real leader.”
This is the story, and the photos, of what happened that night.
Diana Moskovitz Deadspin Nov 2015 15min Permalink
An essay on Floyd Mayweather Jr. as both.
Louisa Thomas Grantland Apr 2015 15min Permalink
The woman that the mixed martial arts star beat nearly to death tells her side of the story.
Jane McManus ESPN W. Apr 2015 15min Permalink
Relief pitcher Donnie Moore is best known for giving up a crucial home run during Game 5 the 1986 ALCS. It’s not what led to his suicide a few years later.
Michael McKnight Sports Illustrated Oct 2014 10min Permalink
On domestic violence and the NFL.
Louisa Thomas Grantland Sep 2014 10min Permalink
Meet Krystal Ryan. She left her abusive husband.
Natasha Gardner 5280 May 2013 25min Permalink
Memories of happiness and troubling behavior linger during a couple's vacation.
"He could hear nothing underwater but his breathing and the rise and fall of frothed waves. Sometimes Nora appeared in front of him or off to the side, but he couldn’t talk—only wave or point. She was beautiful, a streak of light in the water. He duck-dived and his breaths rumbled in the tube. He imagined the crew back on the boat. The whole trip he had noticed how people treated him differently, an Asian with a white wife in Australia, where they didn’t belong, even without knowing he had tried to choke her and she still refused to forgive him. The mask covered his nose and he breathed out of his mouth now like he did when he was trying to sleep."
Matthew Salesses Hot Metal Bridge Jan 2009 15min Permalink