Author: Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY

“How you talk about the deaths that impact you is up to you. And how the Judd family talks about their mother’s death is up to them.”

Domestic violence experts say Johnny Depp’s star status and the fact that Amber Heard has not yet taken the stand may be influencing the public.

Experts in masculinity and extremism say Tucker Carlson’s program is giving dangerous white supremacist online narratives a mainstream platform.

In her memoir “Stepping Back from the Ledge,” USA TODAY journalist Laura Trujillo bares herself to better understand her mother’s suicide.

Sexual trauma can impact a person’s sexual health. Experts say survivors can relearn trust, consent and boundaries, healing through self-compassion.

The silent treatment is a refusal to verbally communicate with another person. When it’s part of a pattern of controlling behavior, it can be abuse.

Experts say the racially-charged reactions to Will Smith’s slap show the pressure Black men face to always be the best versions of themselves.

Violence is not limited to slaps. Violence can be the words we use to mock, categorize, exclude and control.

Everyone watched the same shocking Oscars moment between Will Smith and Chris Rock, but our identities shaped our very different moral conclusions.

When Marsha Blackburn asked Ketanji Brown Jackson to define “woman,” she wanted a simple answer. Scientists and gender scholars say it doesn’t exist.