I worked in a domestic violence shelter in Chicago. Irony of ironies, I ended up being a substance abuse counselor even as I was still an active alcoholic; my bosses noticed that I knew when it was an issue, had compassion enough for it, understood the way it wove itself into things like violence and …
Loving a verbally and emotionally abusive man was the most confusing and contorted place I have ever been. It feels very much like falling down Alice’s rabbit hole: words don’t mean what they are supposed to mean; what I tried to do ‘right’ or to make things better inevitably worked against me; I was told …
PORNOGRAPHY: MEN POSSESSING WOMEN by Andrea Dworkin Copyright © 1989 by Andrea Dworkin. All rights reserved. Introduction 1 I did not hesitate to let it be known of me, that the white man who expected to succeed in whipping, must also succeed in killing me. –Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An …
