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those spaces are not going to spring from conversations in which we give up before we ever even start; they won't come from us tiptoeing around it and leading with the disclaimers. when we describe those spaces and networks, we need to sound SECURE. those ideas need to sound APPEALING. our rhetoric needs to be PROVOKING. we need to inspire bold political imagination in women around us if we want them to try and create - or participate in - something viable

Woman sentenced to 50 years in prison for killing the man who had groomed her since she was 14, raped her, and financially coerced her into multiple cosmetic surgeries.

50-year-old Hal Sasko invited 17-year-old Sarah Brooke Gonzales-McLinn to move in with him after she graduated high school. Three years earlier, Sarah worked for Sasko at the pizza shop he owned. When she left that job, Sasko continued to contact her. Sarah confided in him about her complicated relationship with her parents, her neighbor molesting her as a child, and her experience being raped by a man that burned her with his cigarette.

“Sasko promised to take care of her.”

Sasko charged Sarah rent and provided her with “unlimited access to marijuana and alcohol” while increasingly demanding more money for gas, her phone, and other bills. 

When Sasko shared that he was attracted to Sarah, she “shut him down.” When she discussed moving out, Sasko threatened to sue her and told her he could wreck her credit so that she could never get an apartment or buy a car. Eventually, Sasko started demanding sex alongside rent.

After this, Sasko bragged to his friends about having a “young” but “unattractive” girlfriend and started pushing Sarah to have cosmetic surgery.

He paid for her to get a nose job, then added the $6,000 cost to the bill she would have to repay before she could stop having sex with him. He told her that men don’t like flat-chested women. She needed a curvier body. He wanted her to have breast augmentation surgery, but the doctor said she was too young. He arranged for her to have buttocks implants instead. She objected but felt she had no choice. He added the $10,000 cost to her bill. She estimated that he raped her two to three times per week for 10 months.

On Janary 14, 2014, Sasko texted Sarah to apologize for trying to rape her earlier that week. But at 5:15 pm, he sent a text asking her to put beer in the refrigerator. Sarah said she knew if Sasko was drinking, he would try to rape her again. When he lost consciousness that night, Sarah reportedly made the decision to slit his throat.

Lawrence police questioned her after she was found 11 days later in Everglades National Park. Detective Jamie Lawson wanted to know why she used Sasko’s blood to write “FREEDOM” on the wall. “What were you trying to express when you did that?” Lawson asked. “That’s how I felt,” she replied. Later, [Sarah] told Hutchinson that killing Sasko felt like standing in the sun for the first time.

During her 2015 trial, prosecutor Charles Branson argued that it would be “inappropriate” for the jury to hear about Sasko’s abuse because it might cause them to “feel sympathy” for her. The jury never learned that Sasko was a rapist or of his constant use of pornography that featured children, bestiality, and videos of men raping women who appeared to be sleeping.

On September 4, 2015, a judge sentenced Sarah to a minimum of 50 years in prison. In May 2021, Sarah’s defense attorney successfully argued for reducing her prison sentence to a minimum of 25 years, after which she would be legally allowed to seek parole.

In a column for the Kansas Reflector, Sarah’s prosecutor and defense attorney co-wrote an article claiming, “battered woman syndrome defense wouldn’t be a Get Out of Jail Free card.”

Prison staff continue to taunt and objectify Sarah.

[Sarah] said her unwanted buttocks implants are a constant reminder of the physical and emotional pain Sasko inflicted on her. Shortly after she arrived at prison, she asked to have them removed. “They were all just curious,” [Sarah] said. “I remember one nurse went and called another nurse in and they both touched me.” The state denied her the medical procedure. “Yeah, it would be ideal if all of the nurses would, you know, follow HIPAA and keep your medical stuff private, but they don’t,” [Sarah] said. “And they told a lot of people — a lot of officers, a lot of inmates. That was just very traumatic.”

Sasko was attempting to groom two 16-year-old girls before Sarah stepped in. Her reported actions likely saved these girls years of similar torture.

"Confidential police reports revealed Sasko was grooming 16-year-old twin girls before his death. Their mother was furious at the attention and gifts he provided them, including cash, gas, clothes, subwoofers for their car, and an unsolicited envelope of marijuana. When the mother blocked his number on their phones, he bought them new phones. If they ever wanted to run away, he told the girls, they could move in with him" (x).

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I will never get over how incredible this is.

Artemisia Gentileschi, in 1610, painted how a woman really feels when harassed by men.

She was told it was too much. That it was vulgar. She was told to paint over it.

She thought her original painting was gone forever, buried under a docile woman.

Four centuries later, we can see what she really meant.

Women can see her genuine artwork and connect with it - something Artemisia never could have imagined happening.

1920: After decades of hard work, women won the right to vote. Which women? All of ‘em. Which country? The only one that matters :)

1949: Simone de Beavoir boldly declared that “One is not born, but becomes, a woman.” That’s actually the only thing she said. Short book!

1950-2000: A bunch of evil manhating dykes who were, by the way, WHITE, took over feminism and totally ruined it by being too misandrist. Oh, did I mention they were white? It’s okay to hate them because they were WHITE women.

The glorious 21st century: Intersectionality says that you’re not allowed to say men oppress women. You have to be nice to men! :) Intersectionality is a really great framework that just kinda arose out of nowhere. Oh also bell hooks said you have to be nice to men. So you HAVE to be nice to men or they’ll throw a tantrum

‘The most violent attack ever documented’: Five female bonobos kill a male, challenging beliefs about the species’ peaceful nature (Javier Salas, El País, Oct 22 2025)

"The assault lasted 25 excruciating minutes for Hugo, who tried to cover his head while the entire clan watched without intervening, including some of his relatives.

“The females jumped alternatingly on Hugo’s body, stomping on his back and biting his head, legs, neck, fingers and toes.

One female bit off a part of Hugo’s ear, two others engaged in genito-genital rubbing with each other on top of him.

One of the perpetrators bit into his foot and chewed on the removed tissue, then bit his testes,” the scientists who documented the case describe in detail. (…)

Male chimpanzees maintain strict hierarchies and form long-lasting bonds with each other, while using violence against females to secure offspring.

Bonobos, by contrast, live in a matriarchy: females dominate the group through alliances, reinforced by behaviors such as mutual genital rubbing, which is largely about pleasure. (…)

Males are larger and stronger, yet it is the females who wield violence as a tool of social control.

Perhaps that is why it has gone largely unnoticed.

“It reflects a very male-centric view,” admits Martin Surbeck, from Harvard University, who has also worked with the bonobos of Lui Kotale, in Salonga National Park, but did not participate in this study.

Surbeck published a study in April that reviews 30 years of observations to understand the power of bonobo females.

Eighty-five percent of violent coalitions are led by females seeking to keep males in check, demonstrating that their ferocity is clearly functional: to prevent them from becoming like chimpanzees.

In some communities, females win 100% of conflicts, showing that their dominance is structural.

“The power of these female coalitions is one of the main mechanisms that reverses the power dynamics between the sexes within bonobo groups,” Surbeck added via email.

When female bonobos form aggressive alliances to exert social control over males, they demonstrate that power can be derived not from physical strength, but also from social support.

This is where the attack by the five females on Hugo begins to make sense.

According to primatologists monitoring this community, a couple of days earlier, Hugo had acted aggressively toward the infant of the youngest attacker, Bella (15 years old).

Infanticide is a common male strategy in many species to ensure reproductive success: a male fathers offspring once the female is no longer caring for the children she had with others.

“Bonobo females, however, have managed to reverse this trend, which chimpanzees do, thanks to an unusual cooperation between them,” explains Pashchevskaya, “and they even attack males who misbehave with their young.”