When Women Resort To Violence To Stop Abusive Men

When Women Resort To Violence To Stop Abusive Men

In this livestream, Merly Åsbogård, Elly Arrow, and Sybil Jo go over examples of women individually and collectively resisting men's abuse with violent means from the Gulabi Gang movement in India, the YPJ of Northern Syria, to individual women and girls who kill their abusive partners, traffickers, or (paying) rapists.

Sources:

Cyntoia Brown: trafficked, enslaved, jailed for life at 16 – and fighting back: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/oct/23/cyntoia-brown-long-trafficked-enslaved-jailed-for-life-at-16-and-fighting-back

Valerie Solanas: https://theculturesift.com/who-was-valerie-solanas-part-one/

Aileen Wuornos: https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?params=/context/facpub/article/1218/&path_info=Smith_monster_HEIN.pdf

Women's Vigilantism in India: A Case Study of the Pink Sari Gang: https://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resistance/en/document/womens-vigilantism-india-case-study-pink-sari-gang

Women who kill: how the state criminalises women we might otherwise be burying: https://womensaid.org.uk/women-who-kill/

Centre for Women's Justice: https://www.centreforwomensjustice.org.uk/women-who-kill

They Killed Their Abusers. Should They Spend Their Lives in Prison? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/magazine/oklahoma-domestic-violence-survivors-act.html?unlocked_article_code=1.P1A.ygK7.pWaeB9VkDnym&smid=url-share

Ugandan influencer Aleti Crystal vows to beat up 1.000 men: https://www.instagram.com/aleti_crystal/

Men terrorizing their communities and communities fighting back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akku_Yadav; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McElroy

Take Back the Night movement: https://takebackthenight.org/

Giulia Tofana: poisoner, murderer, saviour? https://historiamag.com/giulia-tofana-poisoner-murderer-saviour/

Kurdish Women Making Revolution in Rojava: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfPf1-GL71c

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