Gender-based Violence

“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…

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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

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

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.

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

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.