Misha V.

Victim blaming in cases of domestic violence is still rampant. The legal system is complicit in the murder of domestic violence victims.

There were 1,958 murders in New York that year, and my husband's father was one of them. It was a brutal homicide. My husband was only seven at the time.

We think that child brides only exist in other, far away places where forced marriages are more common.

Lloyd abused his power when he interjected himself into the lives of these teens to further his own agenda and terrorize vulnerable, young brown girls.

Victims of domestic violence have the right to defend themselves. Survivors shouldn't be victimized twice — that's the audacity of female violence!