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Issue 37 by Lauren Chief Elk-Young Bear & Shanley Kane on May 27th, 2016
The anti-online harassment movement is already replicating many of the shortcomings, failures, erroneous assumptions and faulty strategies of the larger violence against women movement.
Promo poster for Jessica Jones - there is an artist's rendering of Jessica with the villain peering over her shoulder.
Issue 30 by Shaadi Devereaux on November 25th, 2015
On the heels of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Jessica Jones confronts many themes of intimate partner violence.
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Issue 27 by Anonymous Author on September 17th, 2015
I look around and I see my friends building technologies that make life easier for abusers. I am overwhelmingly sad thinking of all the people whose lives have been made orders of magnitude more hellish carrying ever-connected computers on their bodies.
Still from Rihanna's Bitch Better Have My Money music video. Rihanna lies in an opulent trunk full of cash, covered in blood, smoking a blunt on a lush yard.
Issue 25 by Lauren Chief Elk-Young Bear & Yeoshin Lourdes & Bardot Smith on August 10th, 2015
#GiveYourMoneyToWomen is more than a hashtag, it’s a theory and practical framework of gender justice.
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Issue 19 by CK Oliver on April 8th, 2015
In speaking about domestic violence online, we must be inclusive of those that do not fit the traditional narrative.
Lips pictured through a camera lens, making the 'shh' gesture.
Issue 18 by Nikki Murray on March 16th, 2015
Only the stories of those who are entirely sympathetic, that did all the right things, that say all the right words - those who have the privilege to speak publicly - will be heard.
Photo of Shonda Rhimes and Viola Davis on stage.
Surveillance by Sydette Harry on October 6th, 2014
Our picture of surveillance needs to factor in not just tech developments, but the cultural standards that have bred surveillance, especially towards black culture, as part and parcel in our world.