domestic violence

According to multiple local news outlets, Vanessa and Jose were in a romantic relationship for about a year. Although not much detail was given about their situation, Vanessa’s death speaks the truth of our current time, that we live in a violent, misogynistic society where women are abused and murdered every day.

Any effort toward preventing intimate partner violence must consider the full weight of the dynamic and consequential systemic features of our society.

It’s disappointing that it took an audit to bring the policy to the forefront of the agenda, but it’s good to recognize how important they are in fixing flawed policy.

It wasn’t until I started journaling and addressing the root of my pain that I realized how my trauma had impacted my sex life. Being a survivor of violence has meant unlearning my dangerous coping mechanisms and unpacking my unhealthy relationship to sex.