Quote:Patriarchy is an American value. Masculinity and guns too often collude. Cultural mores such as “boys will be boys” dismiss boorish behavior. Victim-blaming questions women about why they stayed in an abusive relationship or why they wore a certain outfit if they were sexually assaulted. Look no further than the sentiments around the likes of Jeffrey Epstein or Sean Combs.

It’s up to us to disrupt the discourse and challenge ourselves to build healthy communities. First, by fully naming the problems.

Quote:The allegations came to a head last month, as Fleming was charged with sharing explicit images of a woman without her consent. That woman obtained an order of protection against him. Another woman, a former Warlord employee, also got an order of protection against him in 2025. Both women allege Fleming verbally abused them by calling them insulting, profane names; gaslit them and took photos of them during sex without their consent, then sent the photos to others. 

Quote:“The top ranks of DHS are more than complicit. They are the driving force behind this brutality, and they should be held accountable"

Quote:It’s beyond clear that the technologies being imposed upon us exaggerate and enable tendencies that used to be unspeakable. They normalize abuse, and they have already normalized gendered hatred. These compulsions come from the same place as the impulse to punish Renee Nicole Good for protesting, for not bending to patriarchal authority. Grok, in fact, generated images of Good wearing a bikini and pictures of her defaced with bullet holes in the days after her death.

Objectification, Manne writes, “can seemingly serve not only as punishment but also as a way of defusing the psychic threat that certain women pose.” What do you do with a disrespectful woman, a wayward one? Punish her, dehumanize her as an example everyone can learn from. What do you do with a woman who seeks authority for herself? Remind her of her place.

Quote:Trump, meanwhile, has called Good “very violent” and “very radical,” and said she was “very, very disrespectful to law enforcement” before she was shot dead. It is a similar kind of language he has used to vilify immigrants of color and justify his administration’s pursuit.

Quote:WHO is seeking input from women with lived experience of violence/abuse for the update of the Responding to intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women WHO clinical and policy guidelines.

Quote:Four hundred twenty women were murdered in Turkey and 508 others died under suspicious circumstances in 2025, according to an annual report released on Friday by the Socio-Political Field Research Center (SAMER).

Based on media reports, the study documented 662 cases of physical violence against women, 1,089 cases of forced sex work, 130 incidents of harassment, 25 rapes and 96 cases involving threats or verbal abuse. along with 170 cases of child sexual abuse.

SAMER said 12.5 percent of the victims were minors, pointing to the extent to which violence disproportionately affects children.

Quote:The two people who filed an incident complaint to police on Dec. 15 are part of a Livonia community Facebook page.

They were concerned about a man who went by Tom Rizz online, who recorded women and children with his Meta glasses and posted the recordings on his social media.

His TikTok page has over 52,000 followers with 1.3 million likes.

They said women were posting on the Livonia Facebook group about the man, saying they were uncomfortable and asking whether other women had encountered him.

They said women who encountered the man had to be escorted to their cars because of how uncomfortable they felt.

They said the man was in the Livonia Facebook group and argued with people in the comments, leading to him doxxing some women who disagreed with his content.

Quote:More than 100 organizations that support victims of human trafficking have lost funding since October, leaving thousands of survivors at risk, a Guardian investigation has found.

Anti-trafficking advocates say the US Department of Justice’s failure to spend nearly $90m appropriated by Congress is impeding law-enforcement investigations and exposing survivors to homelessness and the risk of deportation, jail time or re-exploitation.

This is the latest in a series of Guardian investigative reports, which in September revealed that the Trump administration had rolled back efforts to combat human trafficking across the federal government. That retreat has far-reaching implications beyond those related to the release of the investigative files related to the late Jeffrey Epstein...

Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate judiciary committee, told the Guardian the Trump administration’s failure to release the funds fits a pattern of diverting “important resources from combating crimes”. Instead, the administration was using “that money for their single-minded immigration enforcement agenda, which has included arresting immigrant survivors attempting to report crimes to the police”.

For Hare, who is now pursuing an associate degree in human services at Santa Fe Community College, the Trump administration’s failure to spend the money represents “an abuse of power that mirrors what traffickers do”, putting survivors in a position where they have “nowhere to turn for help”.

“For some of these survivors, the only support they have is these non-profits,” she said. “You’re getting the same response from the government as you are from the person who exploited you: ‘You don’t matter, we don’t care about you.’”

Quote:ICE agents violently restrained a woman in Minneapolis on Monday, dragging her through the snow and pinning her face down as onlookers shouted that the woman was pregnant.

Quote:This is one of the most disturbing videos of ICE abuse I’ve seen.
In Minnesota, ICE agents handcuffed a pregnant woman, forced her onto her stomach, and put their full body weight and knees on her, refusing to let her get up.
In the video, you can hear the crowd screaming over and over that she is pregnant. They plead with the agents to stop. The woman is not resisting, not moving, not a threat. It doesn’t matter. The agents ignore them, continue pointing pepper spray at the crowd, and one agent even shoves a woman backward, assaulting her simply for speaking up.
People keep begging them to let the pregnant woman off her stomach, to stop putting weight on her body. The agents refuse. The crowd grows louder and more desperate, because they are watching someone who could lose her pregnancy, right in front of them, at the hands of ICE agents.
Only after the crowd begins throwing snowballs is the pregnant woman able to get off her stomach.
And then it gets worse.
The ICE agents begin pepper spraying the crowd. One agent drags the pregnant woman by the arm while she is still helpless and restrained. Pepper spray fills the air, hitting bystanders and the pregnant woman herself as she lies on the ground beneath them.
This is not “law enforcement.”
This is cruelty.
This is reckless endangerment.
This is state violence carried out in public, on camera, against a pregnant woman who posed no threat.
If this is what they’re willing to do while being filmed, imagine what happens when no one is watching.

Quote:Women writers, influencers and social media content providers who focus on human rights are most often affected by such online violence, through the use of new tools like deepfake images or manipulated content, according to the study complied with partners like the European Commission and TheNerve, a data research firm.

Lead researcher Julie Posetti, speaking to reporters in Geneva, said the tally of cases of real-world harm linked to online violence against women journalists has more than doubled over the past five years, with 42% of respondents in 2025 identifying “this dangerous and potentially deadly trajectory.”

Quote:“Corrective rape, slaps, and stabbings – they want to keep us silent, but not even death can silence us. Women alive!” With these words, social worker Elisandra “Lis” Martins ended her speech at the battle of rhymes in downtown Brasília, at the Levante Mulheres Vivas (“Women Alive Uprising”), held in several state capitals across Brazil on Sunday (Dec. 7).

Under heavy rain, thousands of people joined the protest in the Federal District to denounce violence against women, femicide, and the government’s failure to protect and prevent gender-based violence.

The protest was called by dozens of women’s organizations after a series of high-profile cases of femicide shocked Brazil in recent days. In Brasília, activists gave speeches and cultural performances took place at the TV Tower in the city center.