🔥 “You Look Like a Man”? That’s Not an Observation. That’s an Attack. 🔥
Still, I Rise BY MAYA ANGELOU
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies.........
A moment of truth.
When some [...]
Why I Believe Women When They Say They’re Afraid — And Why You May Want To Too (updated with podcast link)
updated from June 28, 2024 Listen to this blog post here There are mom [...]
Girls Do Not Owe Anyone Sexual Reparations (audio)
Girls Do Not Owe Anyone Sexual Reparations (audio recording) [...]
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You Are Worthy Now and You Were Then: Featuring Brielle Fowler (audio/podcast)
In this empowering episode of Survivor Affirmations, we emphasize the power of uplifting unheard voices and celebrate resilience. Join us as w [...]
Stop Telling Black Women to Be Silent—Our Bodies Are Paying the Price. (podcast episode)
Black women are not “overreacting”—we are responding to what our bodies have been forced to carry for generations. The pressure to ignore racism, to s [...]
Survivor Affirmations: My Female Existence is Sacred and Worthy of Unapologetic Self-Care (podcast)
Survivor Affirmations: I Deserve Peac from Within by Tonya GJ Prince [...]
🤲🏽 What Is Self-Trust? (And Why Is It So Hard After Abuse?)
Self-trust is the sacred belief that your own voice is worth listening to.It’s the quiet knowing inside that says: “I believe myself. I can rely [...]
Misogynist Gaslighting: The Reversal That Keeps Women Unsafe
Misogynist gaslighting is not just individual.It's systemic, strategic, and silencing.
Here’s how it works—over and over again: 1. Women Set Bound [...]
10 Truths About Grooming: What It Is and What It Is Not
updated from March 2, 2025
Grooming is a word we hear often, yet misunderstanding still surrounds it.
That confusion can lead to silence.It can feed [...]
When the World Misunderstands the Roots of “Choice”: A Survivor-Centered Look at Abuse, Neglect, and Prostitution
Too often, when the topic of prostitution or “sex work” comes up, the first question is: “Why did she choose that?”But I’ve been walking beside Surviv [...]
Myth: It Doesn’t Hurt Women and Girls to ‘Be kind”
Stop the lies. Trusting the wrong folks gets untold numbers of people violated and killed every sin [...]
Divide, Distract, and Conquer: The Hidden Cost of DEI Myths
You know, in Black American wisdom, there’s a deep understanding that the most dangerous blow is the one you n [...]
Surviving Abuse Daily: Vintage Sexist Ads
updated from June 24, 2022
A Grounding Perspective
Looking back visually can feel startling because images b [...]
We Carried the Battle. Don’t Rewrite the War.
Black American women do not own braids. Braids have lived on many heads across many cultures for centuries.B [...]
Women Are Not a Feeling. We Are Not Yours to Define.
There is a dangerous lie being whispered and shouted in this world:That a woman is a feeling.That our existe [...]
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Surviving Abuse: Women's Health and Generational Trauma
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Erin Justice: The Worst That Could Happen
Women and girls do not always survive rape.
Erin Justice was a teen being jointly raised by b [...]
When Male Pain Is Exploited, Women and Children Pay the Price
A woman named Poinsettia Grant-Parks was preparing to move in with her sister—just two days away from escapin [...]
Please Stop Signaling Support to Grown Men Accused of Harming Children
Start Showing Up for the People Who Need It Most
When someone is arrested for harming a child,we do not need [...]
Prevent it-Trauma is Traumatizing.
This poster could not be more correct. You do not do this work without encountering people who do not recover. [...]
No One Hands Women Safety. We Claim It, Protect It, and Pass It Forward.
I'm sorry. People talk as if women’s safety is something governments eventually “figure out,” like a policy [...]
They Can’t Always Find the Right Words. But They Still Deserve to Be Heard.
Sometimes Survivors speak in whispers.Sometimes in long pauses, in shaking hands, in misplaced laughter.Someti [...]
🌿 My Self-Soothe Journal
🌿 My Self-Soothe Journal
A Sacred Space to Tend to Your Spirit, Breath by Breath
There are moments when the world feels too loud… and your nervous [...]
⚖️ The System May Not Bring Closure—But You Still Have a Right to Choose
Let’s tell the truth:You may not find closure in the American justice system.Many Survivors don’t.Some find more harm.More dismissal.More [...]
Why Women Must Stop Handing Power to Our Oppressors
Some of us have been told since girlhood that our main purpose in this life was to support men.To smile when they win.To clap for their rise [...]
Inclusion Should Never Cost Girls Their Safety
April is child abuse awareness month.
When politicians twist the language of “inclusion” to force girls to surrender their safe spaces, t [...]
When Women Forget We Are Women
When women stop listening to other women about safety—when you say, “That never happens,” or “Who cares?”—you hand over our collective protection.
Yo [...]
Radical Self-Worth: A Woman is a Miraculous Human BEING
updated August 2025 It has been my professional experience, working with violence and abuse victims, that the people yelling and demanding
re [...]
Abuse Isn’t About Rage. It’s About Control.
👁️ See It Clearly Watch who people protect — and who they hurt.
Watch who they challenge — and who they stay silent around. Women.
Children.
[...]
Mother of Environmental Justice: Hazel M. Johnson
updated from November 9 2024
Never forgetting the pioneering mothers of environmental justice and those who identified its roots in racism. [...]
Why Every Generation Thinks It’s “Right” (And Why That Changes)
I'm really starting to feel like we need to bring back those stickers. You know the content warning stickers? "Pg-13" and such. Gen X is the reason fo [...]
🚨 25 Items & Systems That Risk Women’s Lives Because They Don’t Accommodate Women
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Women and girls are frequently sent the message that demanding accommodations for our health and safety are "selfish." And, DEI is a si [...]
More Safe Spaces for Women Now: Even in the US, Women Are Dying in a System That Limits Their Escape
There are moments that should stop us. Not just emotionally, but structurally. As we reflect on the loss of women and children, the question is n [...]
10 Signs You’re Being Asked to Tolerate the Intolerable
adjusting.being understanding.keeping the peace.
repeat.
Your cheek muscles hurt from smiling so much to keep others "comfortable".
And then.....on [...]
This Is No Time for a Victory Lap: 35 Modern Dangers Women Are Still Being Pushed to Tolerate
Remember that race where the person winning started celebrating ....but forgot to officially cross the finish line and win the race? A [...]
