Empowering Survivor-Advocates

Free Battered Texas Women (FBTW) is a survivor- and women-led education and advocacy group whose mission is to stop arrests of female abuse survivors; to promote clemency; and to support incarcerated/formerly incarcerated survivors, ensuring they live whole, productive lives.

Our ED Dr. Cathy Marston birthed FBTW from inside the Texas prisons, where she served 9 years in TDCJ for acting under duress from abuse. She has published on criminalized abuse survivors since 2010 & presented on the history of clemency efforts for Texas survivors in 2019 for the National State Clemency Awareness convening of the National Council for Incarcerated & Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls. Read More…