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-backValerie 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.pdfWomen'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-gangWomen 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-killThey 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-shareUgandan 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_McElroyTake 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