When I was younger, I was abused. No one gets to choose who they are born to, and who I was born to was a horrible person. My mother didn’t want another kid, so she called me her mistake. I was physically and mentally abused for years. No kid wants to be abused, and yes, […]
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Have you ever been in a setting without pepper spray on you? How about a pocket knife? Have you ever been in a situation where you felt unsafe in a learning environment due to sexual innuendos? We live in a world where thousands of women must carry self-defense weapons in case a man tries to […]
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“This is a problem, and if I don’t say anything, it’s going to keep happening,” is what Kamilah Willingham once said. Kamilah Willingham is an African-American activist who is also a survivor of sexual assault. When she was a law student at Harvard University, she reported being sexually assaulted by a fellow student and was […]
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How would the lives of everyday women be changed if they said #MeToo? Would their candor and bravery be applauded and believed like their rich and famous counterparts, or would they be silenced once again and relegated back into the homes of their abusers? Violence against women is a complicated and multifaceted issue. The World […]
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Did you know that females are more prone to experiencing violence in relationships than their male counterparts? According to Dosomething.org, “85% of domestic violence victims are women.” This does not leave male adults out of the equation. In (Huecker et.al, 2020) one in nine men are victims of domestic violence. Domestic violence has a major […]
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My name is Tayania Taylor. I am from IDEA PCS and my issue is domestic violence. Imagine, your relationship with your mother stopped because of a man. A man that physically abused your mother right in front of you and still deals with her abuser because he got better. No one ever thinks about the […]
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It was a nice night; very dark outside and a very beautiful sky filled with stars. But inside the walls of one house things weren’t as nice as they seemed. SLAP, every second, SLAP was heard, and sadly she was already used to this type of behavior. Domestic violence is a problem and the number […]
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When you look at the news or social media, do you ever see reports on women or young ladies being kidnapped or even being sexually harassed, to the point where they can be raped? Being a witness to harassment on social media has made me feel awful and disgusted, it’s not something you joke about. […]
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In 2013, an 8-year-old boy was beaten, starved, forced to sleep in a closet, and tortured to death. Worse yet, these despicable acts were committed by his mother and stepfather. This is important to me because an innocent child who did not grow up yet and live a full life was abused by mom and […]
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Imagine that you’re on your way home from work. You hop on the Metro and take your seat. Not long after, you see this man start harassing a woman next to him. It continues for a long time until he sexually assaults her. What do you do? Would you help the woman or stay seated […]
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In this world, women go through a lot especially when it comes to sexual assault and harassment. People fear having their daughter or any female loved one go out by themselves because of what’s going on in the world when it comes to women, they also go through other stuff like being stereotyped. Women are […]
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Hello, my name is Kiera Lyles and I am in 9th grade at Cesar Chavez Parkside High School. Did you know that over 400,000 women and girls are victims of rape and sexual assault each year in the United States? I want to live in a world where women and girls are not getting sexually […]
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