From pushing an elderly person in the back in California’s Bay Area to a string of shootings at massage parlors in metro Atlanta, attacks on Asian Americans across the country have Yunae Mello more ...

Heidi Woo vividly recalls the moment when she narrowly avoided assault. She was an exchange student in Paris 18 years ago. Walking home to her apartment, she spotted a man following behind her, too ...

Self-defense classes geared toward LGBTQ people can be found sprinkled across the United States, and instructors and students say the skills these classes provide are giving attendees a boost of ...

Sinead Mulligan decided to learn self-defense after one of her friends jokingly threw her to the ground with a jujitsu move. “I was like, ‘If this tiny girl can throw me to the ground, I should ...

At the beginning of class, Chijioke “Chi” Williams invites her trans self-defense students to “shake it out” and simply get moving. “There’s so many people with complicated relationships with their ...