Glamour. “We are so socialized as women and gender-minoritized folks that there is only one type of powerful body." Abdelhamid helps train women to get out from under people who are twice their weight. “You get a real sense of the power of your body,” she says.
Spangled tasers and glittery kitty knuckles are becoming ubiquitous, but not all self-defense cases are treated equally. In Texas in 2018, a 22-year-old white woman was charged with illegal weapons possession for having a cat-shaped defense object in her purse at a traffic stop.
In response to her case, the state legislature passed a bill legalizing brass knuckles and cat keychains, and the . For women of color, deciding whether or not to carry a self-defense object is a more.
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