Eric Henney applauds Stuart Chaifetz, the father who wired his 10 year-old son in order to record the abuse children were suffering in their special education classroom.
Can We Make This More Complicated?
April 18, 2012 By 32 Comments
Clarisse Thorn talks rape, feminism, BDSM, and what it’s all taught her about the ethics of complexity.
Providence Girl Beaten While Neighbor Videotapes
April 3, 2012 By 105 Comments
Mark Radcliffe wonders what the role of the witness is: to stop a crime or to record it?
Chris Brown and The Sounds of Young Men in Free Fall
February 29, 2012 By 12 Comments
Jeff Perera takes a look at the troubled singer and wonders how we can keep young men on the right path.
Is Bra-Snapping The Beginning Of Domestic Abuse?
February 21, 2012 By 16 Comments
Joanna Schroeder explains that little boys aren’t the only ones who tease because they like someone.
Damaged: Tales of Child Abuse and Growing Up
February 9, 2012 By 7 Comments
Robert Brown shares the story of his childhood, being sexually abused by other children, and how it has shaped him as an adult.
#36: Poet
February 6, 2012 By 1 Comment
“A hero is a man of distinguished courage and ability; it describes him perfectly.”
Your Domestic Violence Awareness Campaign Probably Isn’t Helping Me
January 31, 2012 By 19 Comments
Why is it that the majority persists on making violence a gender issue? And how does showing that women can also be violent and abusive somehow soften the horror of any act of violence by a man?
Our Need for Privacy: The Blueprint of Abuse
January 25, 2012 By 6 Comments
While he used to keep the worst memories stored inside, Yashar Ali has learned to use his memories to move his life forward.
My Fear of Men Cost Me 9 Things
January 25, 2012 By 7 Comments
Brian C. Rideout won’t lose anything more to fear.
Why I Advocate for Men’s Rights
January 24, 2012 By 355 Comments
Men deserve more voices talking for them, writes GirlWritesWhat, and that’s why she’s doing it.
I Don’t Care What You Call It: Sexual Violence Against Men and the Pain of Being Invisible
January 17, 2012 By 28 Comments
The language of abuse doesn’t really matter, Brian C. Rideout writes. Instead, we need to focus on helping and allowing the victims to heal.
Smoke, Mirrors, and Earthquakes: On Being a Male Survivor
January 8, 2012 By 29 Comments
Can the same sympathy exist for male survivors of female abuse , Tim Pylypiuk writes, as it exists for female survivors of male abuse?
Rape Culture: Men, Women, and Power
January 6, 2012 By 257 Comments
The only people who think all men are rapists, Soraya Chemaly writes, are, well, rapists.
In Defense of Storytelling
January 3, 2012 By 342 Comments
Lisa Hickey thinks we need more stories like Hugo Schwyzer’s, not fewer.
Vocalyze
On Hostility Toward Trauma Survivors: Full Stop
This comment was from Justin Cascio on James Landrith’s post “I’ve Got the T-Shirt and the Trauma Response to Go With It.”