intimate partner violence

Safety planning is the process of developing a plan that can increase the safety of a person surviving violence and abuse. This 52-page toolkit from Survived and Punished discusses safety planning as informed by abolitionist perspectives.

Sexual choking involves blocking the airways for sexual pleasure. But there is no safe way to engage in breath play. Heather Corinna and Giselle Woodley discuss the dangers of choking, guidelines for BDSM and kink, and suggested alternatives.

How do we end rape culture? Recognizing and naming it is an important beginning. This article discusses how rape culture harms us, ignoring and trivializing gender-based violence, and turning violence against women into entertainment.

The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) includes trans people. Learn how we can respond to intimate partner violence, sexual assault, harassment, and discrimination, whatever our gender identity.

Activists Reina Gattuso and Robyn Ochs join psychologist Nicole Johnson to discuss why bisexual women face higher rates of sexual and intimate partner harassment and violence than either heterosexual or lesbian women do.

A fact sheet on reproductive coercion, a form of intimate partner violence, to help us better recognize it and respond to it.

This fact sheet provides an overview of coerced debt -- how domestic abusers try to control their partners' finances, and how survivors can challenge this form of abuse through legal means.

Find groups and organizations who are working to support survivors and end gender-based violence.

This CBS news report documents the link between mass shootings and domestic violence.

This poster from Futures Without Violence shares signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships and includes national hotline resource numbers.

This comic book tells the story of Neela and Chris, a high school couple. The book illustrates what intimate partner violence can look like in a teenage relationship.

This article explains the need to change systems for reporting domestic violence and describes alternative approaches.