Gender-based Violence

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Major Public Safety and Gun Legislation Bills Signed Into Law (and Some of the Debates Against Them)

“Red flag” gun legislation will restrict access to people who are in danger of using guns to cause harm, including in domestic violence issues. Opposition voices included here…

  • 05/12/2023
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Hmong Minnesotan Efforts to Liberate Us From Violence

“[W]hether it is the police or the men in our community, it’s the same kind of violence. It is patriarchal violence.” 

  • 04/27/2023
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Breaking the Cycles that Lead to Violence

“We’re seeing a resurgence of interest in restorative justice, because it resonates, I think, at the core with so many of us.”

  • 04/26/2023
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The Hometown Values & Vision Tour

“Our superpower is getting people with great insights into the same space.”
— publisher Mikki Morrissette

  • 04/26/2023
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Deep Dive: Why Doesn’t Minnesota Have a Survivors Justice Act?

“My purpose was to unpack the secret, because there were other women surrounding me while I was incarcerated who were dealing with the same issue.”

  • 04/03/2023
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What We Can Do Together About Gender-Based Violence: March 25 Event Highlights

Issues Insiders think Minnesota is still a few years away from having enough support to pass the Survivors Justice Act. Can the

  • 03/26/2023
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Celebrating the Advocacy and Principals of Honor the Earth

“Water and women are one and the same. They deserve our love and protection.”

  • 02/28/2023
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Defusing Patriarchal Violence: Editor’s Letter and TOC

“Feminism asks: what would it be to end the political, social, sexual, economic, psychological, and physical subordination of women? It answers: we do not know, let us try and see.” — Amia Srinivasan

  • 02/22/2023
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Setting Up Gender-Based Violence Issues and Solutions

Economic abuse, rape, criminalization of victims, gun-related homicides, and why the village needs to be part of the solutions

  • 02/22/2023
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The Reality of Sex Trafficking

There is misunderstanding about how people can be trapped into the trafficking system. Often it stems from a need to survive. Lack of housing is a huge risk factor.

  • 02/22/2023
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Talking to Boys About Masculinity: A Conversation With Felix Martinez-Paz

We are tired because we’re carrying this backpack every day, heavy with expectations and stereotypes.

  • 02/22/2023
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How to Defy Rape Culture

Men need to continue to examine ourselves and our behavior, and have the strength to admit we are complicit in our patriarchal sense of entitlement.

  • 02/22/2023