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Advocates at the Women's Freedom Center have been talking about the intersection of violence against women and Valentine's Day.
We are not out at local stores, misty-eyed, poring over the Hallmark selection. Nor are we fingering the lacy heart shaped boxes of Whitman's Chocolates.
Instead, we recognize the unavoidable pit in mid-stomach, when a woman is at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital or Grace Cottage Hospital waiting for the SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner) to swab for forensic evidence that a rape has occurred.
Or when she stands before a Windham Family Court judge, struggling to explain the toll that 14 years of threats, intimidation, and verbal abuse have taken on her life and the lives of her children.
Re: “Overflow Shelter piece: 'dehumanizing,' 'ugly' portrait,” [Voices, Nov. 23]: Thank you, Mel Motel, for taking the time to put language to this important issue. I want our community to continue to grapple with understanding the complexity of poverty and oppression. The place from which we offer support to...
What began nearly 40 years ago as a grassroots movement, when a small group of forward-thinking women came together here, and across the world, to address the issue of men's violence, remains here, a grassroots movement today. When our foremothers gathered and chose a name for this organization, they...
