by Marianne Dhenin | Mar 8, 2026 | abuse, dehumanization, Disability Justice, government records, institutionalization, Massachusetts, Mental Health, News
A new Massachusetts state law passed in November 2025 will make records from state institutions for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities or mental health conditions accessible for the first time. Generations of disabled people lived and died in those institutions beginning in the mid-nineteenth century. Many experienced horrific abuse, and their histories have long been obscured.
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by Kwaneta Harris | Feb 20, 2026 | Abolition, dehumanization, Media, Misogyny, Op-Ed, Patriarchy, Prisons, Sexual Harassment
Most true crime media is consumed by women, some of whom may be watching because they relate to the true crime genre’s victims. But another group of true crime junkies has different motives for watching: men looking to connect with incarcerated women. True crime media has manufactured a uniquely degrading pipeline: Women convicted of crimes become involuntary performers in a spectacle that…
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