Amanda Gering

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Happy New Year! Are you into resolutions? Find some inspiration in Colorlines’ “Racial Justice Bucket List.”

The YWCA of Spokane is thinking about how the design of their shelter space can impact survivors’ healing process.

It’s stalking awareness month! Check out the presidential proclamation issued by the White House this week.

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Many powerful tributes have been written this week on Nelson Mandela’s leadership and legacy. This one discusses what he did for South African women’s freedom and equality.

Sexual assault is so common that we all need to know what’s helpful (and not helpful) to say. This article gives some important insights into what people who have been sexually assaulted go through.

In money news, voters have approved a raise in the minimum wage to $15/hour for workers at the Seattle-Tacoma airport.

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Jacksons Food Stores launched their “Give the Gift of Peace” campaign yesterday. This is an incredible multi-state effort to raise awareness and money to end domestic violence. Thank you Jacksons!

Rory Graves—Seattle mom and social media coordinator at ParentMap—shares her experience of growing up in a home with guns and domestic violence.

Selfies: the epitome of self-indulgence or “an aesthetic with radical potential for bringing visibility to people and bodies that are othered.”

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Wondering what role you can play in ending domestic violence? This article gives great concrete tips on how to talk to friends about their relationships.

Who doesn’t love Burt’s Bees products? But I’m gonna have to quit using them if they keep up this nonsense of legitimizing street harassment. Catcalling is not a compliment!

Have you heard of the End Revenge Porn campaign? Read the inspiring story behind its launch.

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In the disturbing category:

Victims are pushing for new laws to stop revenge porn: websites of “explicit photos posted by ex-boyfriends, ex-husbands and ex-lovers, often accompanied by disparaging descriptions and identifying details.”

On a more hopeful note:

I’ve often wished we had a huge national campaign aimed at ending domestic violence and sexual assault and wondered how it would change our culture. Well, I’m about to find out. The No More campaign just launched this week and is getting a lot of media buzz.

The White House announced the creation of the first-ever LGBT victim services institute! The effort will be lead by our local (Seattle) program the Northwest Network of Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian and Gay Survivors of Abuse.

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“In the Cleveland kidnapping case bystander intervention worked. What happens when it doesn’t?” A thoughtful article on what it means to intervene and how this can play out in communities in which “calling the police might create more problems than it would solve.”

A group of students at the University of Saskatchewan made this video to try to answer the question:“How would ads look if gender roles were reversed?”

An incredible high school senior local to us here in the Seattle area shares her personal story to get teens talking about domestic violence.

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The heroic story of Amanda Berry’s survival and escape was made possible by a neighbor who “figured it was a domestic violence dispute” and got involved instead of looking the other way.

Despite regular claims that women often lie about being raped and abused, it’s not actually true. According to a new study, “disbelieving survivors is not only harmful but statistically unfounded.”

In the super-disturbing category: getting lots of press this week is the new life-sized ex-girlfriend “tactical mannequin target” that bleeds when you shoot her. OK, “super-disturbing” might be way too kind of a description.

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The FDA lowered the age limit this week (to 15) for emergency contraception and gave Plan B the green light to sit on drugstore shelves (instead of behind the pharmacist’s counter).

Wednesday was May Day, also known as International Workers Day. Seattle’s The Stranger is attempting to focus a little more on the actual goals of the “family-friendly immigrant and workers’ rights march” vs. how many windows were broken.

An incredibly powerful story from a domestic violence survivor in our state. The full segment will air on NBC’s Rock Center with Brian Williams tonight and talks about the escalated risk when domestic violence abusers have access to guns.

Saudi Arabia just launched its first major ad campaign against domestic violence. Check it out!

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Your partner is assualting you. You call the police for help. And you get evicted for it. Could that possibly be happening? Yup. And the ACLU is taking it on.

How can one girl’s education impact an entire community? That’s the girl effect.

Still feeling sick to my stomach about the Boston Marathon bombings. Friends of Katherine Russell talk of their observations of Tamerlan Tsarnaev as an abusive and controlling partner.

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NCAA basketball has provided more than the usual share of madness this time around. Plenty of upsets and broken dreams (not to mention broken bones). And then, of course, there’s the firing of Rutgers abusive and homophobic coach. This commentary helps put things into context: “as much as Rice is the crux of this particular problem, the issue is bigger than him…which is why it keeps happening.”

Check out this article on some cool strategies young people in Bangladesh are using to engage their communities to end violence against women.

Some inspiration from the teen victim in the Steubenville rape case. Btw, have you seen the anti-rape PSA from a University of Oregon student?

We all know there are far fewer women than men in politics. But why? Because they’re not getting elected? Not running? Not even thinking about it? Some new research is breaking down the gender gap in politics.

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