By Guest Contributor Miriam Pérez, originally published at RH Reality Check
This article is part of a series appearing on RH Reality Check, written by reproductive justice advocates responding to recent efforts by the anti-choice movement to use racial and ethnic myths to limit women’s rights and health. Recent articles on this topic include those by [...]

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim
Another great project from Racialicious special correspondent Jessica Yee and her organisation, the Native Youth Sexual Health Network: Protecting the Circle: Aboriginal Men Ending Violence Against Women is a short collection of writings by Aboriginal men on how they can work to stop violence against women in their communities and beyond.
Jessica [...]

By Special Correspondent Nadra Kareem, originally posted at Bitch Magazine

Which celebrity has earned more bad press for reported acts of domestic violence—Chris Brown or Charlie Sheen?
When gossip Web site TMZ.com criticized Brown Jan. 21 for appearing with designer Jean Paul Gaultier, in makeup that made him look bruised and bloodied for a “warrior-themed runway show,” visitors [...]

By Special Correspondent Jessica Yee, originally published at CITIZENShift

Editor’s note: Yesterday, December 6th, was the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada, in commemoration of the Montréal Massacre.  Jessica Yee wrote the following article to draw attention to the racialized nature of violence against women, among other things.
It’s December 6th [...]

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim

Time Magazine reports on women migrant workers who have been raped, and the resulting pregnancies:
While globalization has turned much of the world into a wide-open labor market, it has also created complex human and societal dramas. Women account for up to 50% of the world’s 100 million–strong migrant-worker population — and [...]

by Guest Contributor Fiqah, originally published at Possum Stew
[NOTE: This post was originally penned back in September. The police officer in question is obviously no longer a threat to my safety. However, because a lot of what I discuss in this post is triggering, it took me a while to get to a place where [...]

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim
**TRIGGER WARNING**: The following post is about physical and sexual abuse in detention, and focuses on a trans woman who has chosen to speak out about the abuse she endured. Her choice is incredibly brave and her story is deeply distressing.
Restore Fairness has a post about Esmeralda, a trans woman [...]

By Guest Contributor Gordon Gartrelle, originally posted at We are respectable negroes

Based on reports from national media outlets, the only people who ever go missing seem to be:
a. White
b. Female
c. Thin and relatively attractive
d. Upper class (by virtue of income or education)
What, then, do we make of the case of Annie Le, the Asian American [...]