When Power and Control Speaks, It Uses the Same Language
"I get to treat you horribly because I have decided that you are less than me."
Power and control don’t always look the same.But they al [...]
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 [...]
✋🏽10 Ways Men Have Tried to Define Womanhood (w/audio)
updated from April 18, 2025In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.
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My Health and Safety Matters Too: Why “Assigned Female at Birth” Sparks Backlash
Explore why women's rights groups argue that this phrase not only diminishes the lived experiences of women but also risks erasing the realities [...]
Your Vocal Power: Podcast Selections for Survivors this Week
From WE Survive Abuse podcast. Stories of inspiration for Survivors of powerful women including: Sonya Ivanoff, Harriet Tubman, Marilyn Van [...]
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19 James Baldwin Truths and Affirmations That Still Strengthen the Human Spirit (on audio)
Latest episode of WESurviveAbusePodcast.com
19 James Baldwin Truths and Affirmations That Still Strengthen the Human Spirit [...]
Safety Requires Strategy — Not Just “Being Nice”
updated from August 7 2025
Remember now, plenty of wives and children around the world are very nice to men who think nothing of harming them in an i [...]
How Climate Change is Making the Violence Against Women Epidemic Worse
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The Myth of Easy Access: Why You Don’t Owe the World Your Self
When people are treated as if others "ought to have access" to them, it is a systematic denial of their right [...]
Giving Men What They Want Every Time They Ask is Not an Effective Violence Prevention Strategy
There is something missing from a great deal of our modern conversation about men, women, loneliness, relation [...]
Why Women Can’t Override Another Woman’s “No” Using Gender as a Justification
No woman—no matter how wise, how wounded, how experienced, or how loud—has the right to override another woman [...]
It’s Not About What You Told Her. It’s About What She Can Teach You.
So many rush to say:“I told her.”“She didn’t listen.”“She should’ve known better.”But this isn’t t [...]
The Delay Is the Damage: How Abusers Use Time to Their Advantage
from WESurviveAbuse.comThe truth about violence and abuse rarely rushes out of the shadows.It creeps.It stutters.It fights its way through sha [...]
How Changing Language Around Sex is Used to Undermine Women in Courtrooms
We live in an age of shifting language.A time when even the most basic truths—like what it means to be a woman—are being rewritten, not by science or [...]
For Some People, Staying Grounded in Reality Is a Daily Act of Strength
For Some People, Staying Grounded in Reality Is a Daily Act of StrengthFor many people, “reality” is something the mind holds effortlessly. Bu [...]
7 Things to Know About María Elena Moyano, the Afro-Peruvian Woman Who Organized Women and Refused to Surrender to Fear
Sometimes history gives us a woman whose life makes the word courage feel too small.María Elena Moyano was [...]
Unlearning Loyalty to Those Who Ask You to Lie
“Power borrowed from fear never lasts"
There comes a time when your soul grows too heavy to carry the wei [...]
12 Things Men Say “I’m Not Worried About” — While Treating Women’s Concerns as Silly
Men love to say it with a shrug, a smirk, sometimes even a laugh: “I’m not worried about that.”
The arrogan [...]
Domestic Violence Awareness Month: Expanding the Conversation to Cohabitation Spaces
October reminds us to shine light on the realities of domestic violence. Too often, our discussions focus na [...]
Why Do Men Kill Women?
“When the truth is too loud to ignore, the world calls it discomfort. We call it survival.”
Why do men kill women?
Too often, it’s not because o [...]
Surviving Abuse Daily: Vintage Sexist Ads
updated from June 24, 2022
A Grounding Perspective
Looking back visually can feel startling because images bypass intellectual defenses. They speak [...]
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Society’s Failure to Protect Women & Girls in the Locker Room
For those of us who have been ringing alarms in recent years....keep speakingFor those who have remained silent, please start speaking and stop ignori [...]
How to Stop Pouring Into What Doesn’t Grow
Water does nothing for fake flowers. So why are women still told to pour?
Women are always told to give.To support, love, uplift, and prote [...]
Female Bullying: Yet Another Obstacle to Women’s Rights and Freedoms
Women who use or exploit their connection to abusive men to bully other women are typically enga [...]
We Can Tell What Team You’re On
If you're not an advocate for giving violent, manipulative, deceptive, abusive males more rights and protections—Then you need to say that.A [...]
Non-Stranger Assault: Why Self-Doubt is Part of the Trauma, Not the Truth (Infographic)
Non-Stranger Assault: Why Self-Doubt is Part of the Trauma, Not the Tr [...]
Coercive Sex Trafficking: What People Don’t Understand
That line is more fragile than people think.
Too many people in the U.S. still picture sex trafficking as s [...]
The Book I Avoided—Until I Couldn’t Anymore
By a Survivor Who Now Understands Why the Caged Bird Sings
I’ve always been a voracious reader.
Since [...]
The Disposability of the “Wrong” Women: A Call to Conscience (w/Affirmations)
There is a silence that wraps itself around certain women like a shroud—thick, suffocating, strategic.
It’s [...]
💔 “I Was Coerced by Someone I Trusted. I Didn’t Say No. Is It Still Assault?”
This is one of the most common — and most heartbreaking — questions Survivors ask.And it deserves a clear, loving, truthful answer.
Yes. Coer [...]
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 [...]
🌿 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 [...]
