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Gender-based Violence

DEEP DIVE: How Politics Is, and Is Not, Addressing Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

In a conversation with U.S Senate candidate Peggy Flanagan last week with members of our young Future Forward editorial board, we talked about how powerful it is for four Minnesota women to be running for the two highest offices in the state — including Governor. We also talked about the obvious misogyny we see in the highest places in U.S. government.
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Publisher’s Commentary on World News Day: Why Our Feminist Media Platform Exists

Today is World News Day, which coincides with the United Nations International Day for Universal Access to Information. More than a thousand newsrooms from more than 100 countries are today pointing out the value of a free press, including Minnesota Women's Press. Here is our essay on the subject.
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What Data Says About Violence in Minnesota: A Reflection After the Latest Mass Shooting

“Despite widespread media attention to mass shootings committed by estranged people, the majority of homicides are committed by individuals known to the victims.”
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A Week of Connecting Dots Around Abusive Behavior

Lynn Tramonte, executive director of the Ohio Immigrant Alliance, pointed out that there is “a real problem with gender-based violence by ICE agents — and the agency is not taking it seriously. Andrew Golobic used his position of power against women who feared deportation to extort sex.
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Honoring Minnesotans Who Lost Their Lives in 2025 Because of Abusive People

The annual Intimate Partner Homicide Memorial was hosted by Violence Free Minnesota at the Saint Paul College Club on January 30, honoring Minnesota lives lost to domestic violence in 2025.
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Barriers and Preventative Action: A Conversation on Domestic Violence in Rochester

How housing barriers with landlords and untrained law enforcement impacts survivors of domestic violence — and the changes and solutions happening in Rochester to try to correct that.
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Violence Prevention: The Nature of Coercive Control (Part 2)

“Coercive control is often the earliest and most overlooked warning sign of repeated escalating violence. It appears in teen relationships, long-term partnerships, rural and domestic areas."
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What Happens When We Tell These Stories Wrong, or Not At All?

Within the past several years, and indeed since January, we have witnessed an explosive rise in misogyny in both virtual and in-person spaces, resulting in wall-to-wall news coverage that is rarely explored with nuance.
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Part 1: How Control Perpetuates Gender-Based Violence 

We gathered advocates together in Saint Cloud to talk about the nature of control in perpetuating sexual assault, domestic violence, and not searching for answers to missing or murdered women and girls.
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Calls for Accountability After Domestic Violence Killings in Minneapolis

"Black and brown women are often not seen as victims." They are "less likely to be believed, less likely to be protected, and more likely to be blamed for their abuse."
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What to Know About ERPOs (“Red Flag” Laws)

The goal of ERPOs isn’t gun control. “We have decades and decades of research about risk and about lethality, and it’s about removing the risk — in this case firearms — in this moment that exponentially increases the odds that someone is going to die in the near term.”
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Recognizing Four Other Changemaking Voices This Year

Changemakers recognition is usually given to people who tend to be unknown outside of their immediate communities, and who have not yet appeared in our pages. This year we wanted to give recognition to two people for lifetime achievements as they step into retirement (Sue Abderholden and Pamela Zeller), Nekima Levy Armstrong and the impactful Target boycott protesting their pullback from diversity pledges, and the PFund Foundation for trans health.
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VIOLENCE PREVENTION: The Impact and Ecosystem of Domestic Violence in Minnesota

Every year Violence Free Minnesota shares on October 1 — as Domestic Violence Awareness month begins — a snapshot of how Minnesota communities have been impacted by domestic violence, naming the victims of the previous year. The following are snapshots from the 76-page 2024 Homicide Report, released today.
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COMMENTARY: Can Minnesota be the first state to end the epidemic of violence against Black women, girls and femmes? 

Black women, girls and femmes who are 14 years or older and live in Minnesota are invited to participate in this opportunity.
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Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum

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