The Red Flags Of Femicide & My Personal Advice On How To Survive Leaving An Abusive Relationship [Op-Ed]
While each experience is a heartbreaking reality, things definitely hit differently when it becomes personal. In 2016, the story shifted from something I read to someone I loved: my best friend, Luciana Stewart Childs. The post The Red Flags Of Femicide & My Personal Advice On How To Survive Leaving An Abusive Relationship [Op-Ed] appeared first on MadameNoire.
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Sis! If you are a Black woman on Beyoncé’s internet, you have seen it.
A beautiful picture.
A loving birthday post.
A celebration post.
The caption:
“Happy heavenly birthday.”
Then the comments:
“She didn’t deserve this.”
“Prayers for her family.”
“Gone too soon.”
And somewhere buried in the story, the truth is that she is not here because she loved the wrong man, right?
Wrong. We gotta stop pretending this is random because it is not! These stories are not just one-off headlines. It is a harsh reality that has become a pattern in the Black community. And while so many of the names go unspoken, femicide is real and loud.
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