Playing the Victim: How the Powerful Deny and Attack Survivors of Violence, from Domestic Abuse to Genocide

Journalist Kylie Cheung delivers an urgent, incisive look at how abusers—from empires to intimate partners—use the same gaslighting playbook to oppress victims, silence their voice, and stay in power

Who has the right to their own body? Who has the right to self-defense? Who gets to walk away?

From the genocide in Gaza to the state-sanctioned control of women’s bodies, Kylie Cheung confronts the most urgent moral and political crises of our time through an incisive, illuminating lens: DARVO...