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As gender-based inequities surfaced in the wake of the #MeToo movement, and more women — and therefore more survivors — entered government, they and others have been vocal about how much more complicated the calculus of abuse can be, how yawning the gaps in protection and how damaging the belief that victims can just leave.
As gender-based inequities surfaced in the wake of the #MeToo movement, and more women — and therefore more survivors — entered government, they and others have been vocal about how much more complicated the calculus of abuse can be, how yawning the gaps in protection and how damaging the belief that victims can just leave.
What Defines Domestic Abuse? Survivors Say Itâs More Than Assault The Congresswoman Cori Bush and the musician FKA twigs describe how manipulative, isolating conduct known as âcoercive controlâ helped trap them in abusive relationships. Lawmakers are starting to listen. Congresswoman Cori Bush of Missouri has been sharing her story as a survivor of domestic abuse to help “normalize the conversation.”Credit...Whitney Curtis for The New York Times Listen to This Article . It was, at first, the kind of dreamily romantic attention that Cori Bush craved. She was 19 or so, barely...