Book Review: The Ideal Man
My nightmare began 25 years ago today. The judge, who had previously held a loaded gun to my head and said with conviction that he could kill me and “get […]
Tag Archives: protection orders
DV + Guns = 5x More Likely to End Up Dead
Women are five times more likely to be murdered when guns are in the home. – Dan Satterberg, King County, WA Prosecutor Do you want to be a survivor or […]
Book Review: Grandma Gatewood’s Walk
Why doesn’t HE leave? It’s time to change the conversation on intimate terrorism (domestic violence). Grandma Gatewood would probably slap any DV advocate who dared to call her a victim […]
SCOTUS Opinion: No Guns for DV Perps!
Firearms and domestic strife are a potentially deadly combination nationwide. – Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. v. Hayes, 555 U.S. 415, 427 (2009)* Justice Sonia Sotomayor and her female colleagues […]
Holy Crap! WA State Passed a Law to Seize Guns from DV Perps!
The NRA didn’t oppose a bill in Washington State that calls for the seizure of guns from domestic violence perpetrators when restraining orders are issued. It passed both houses by […]
YWCA’s Week Without Violence™ Campaign: 10/14 – 10/20/13
Please join me in celebrating the YWCA’s Blog Carnival this week. If you don’t have a blog, please spread the word via social media. Let’s celebrate everyone ~ including us […]
“The View from the Victim Room” by Courtney Queeney
The New York Times published this amazing op-ed by Courtney Queeney on June 30. Ms. Queeney is an award-winning poet and abuse survivor who lives in Chicago. “The View From […]
It’s October and There’s Another DV-Related Mass Murder at a Salon: Why Politics Matter
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has issued the obligatory press release in the wake of the DV-related mass shooting and fire at the Azana Salon and Spa in Brookfield, Wisconsin. But, where the […]
Bravo, Washington Post: Shining a Bright Light on Judicial Incompetence in DV Cases
We have a pandemic of judicial incompetence in family courts throughout the United States. The Center for Judicial Excellence is doing a phenomenal job of removing these judges one judge […]
Georgia Gunzer: Betrayed by Pierce County, WA Courts
Georgia Gunzer’s murder on Saturday in Tacoma barely made the news. Mark Fulghum, official spokesperson for the Tacoma police department, chalked it up to just another domestic violence murder. Too bad. […]
Anne Caroline Drake 