Filmmaker Alison Jayne Wilson: Alika Kinan Exposes Trafficking Recruitment Tactics (video)
January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month From @FilmmakerAlisonJayneWilson (X)In EXIT, Alika Kinan exposes ho [...]
The Fable of the Flame that Would Not Bow: The Importance of Help Seeking Language in Troubled Times
Discouragement is part of the battle. It always has been. But defeatist language can become dangerous when it stops people from seeking help, making p [...]
The Magic Trick: How Grooming Feels in the Beginning
They welcome you in with warmth, with open arms. They set the table with love, dignity, and safety—just long enough for you to believe it's real [...]
Spotting the Red Flags: Early Warning Signs of Manipulative and Abusive People (audio/podcast)
Manipulators don’t wear name tags, but their actions can reveal their true intentions. In this [...]
From Objectified to Empowered: Women’s Rights in Medicine Inspired by Henrietta Lacks (podcast/audio)
Henrietta Lacks’ story is a stark reminder of the injustices women, [...]
The Power of Healing Spaces: Why Race-Specific Healing Groups Are as Vital as Sex-Specific Ones (audio/podcast)
Healing is universal, but the paths we take to get there are not one-size-fits-all. In this compelling episode of We Survive Abuse, Tonya GJ Prince ta [...]
What Is Trauma? A Simple Explanation (w/Quotes)
*Note: This is meant to be an elementary explanation. It came out of a conversation. Sometimes you realize you are speaking but your words are not r [...]
Dear Ladies: Your Vote is Your Voice
As a domestic violence advocate for people in unsafe relationships, this election I am concerned for women. At first, I think I underestima [...]
6 Life-Changing Ways Sports Build Courage in Women and Girls
For a short season, my home state had a WNBA team, and I got to go and see a few games up close with my siblings. I was in my early twenties, and I sm [...]
We Are Not the World’s Dumping Ground: The Sacred Art of Refusing Misplaced Blame
Black women, how much of the world’s weight have you carried today?
How many wounds have you stitched up that weren’t yours? How many fires have yo [...]
We Called It Rape Culture for a Reason. And That Reason Still Exists
There was a time when we named things clearly.
We called it rape culture.
Not to be provocative. Not to shoc [...]
No, You’re Not Colorist Just for Disliking a Dark-Skinned Black Woman Artist—But Let’s Talk About How You Express It
Let’s be real for a moment. You are not automatically colorist for disliking a dark-skinned Black woman artist [...]
Centering Safety: Honoring the Right to Request Female Carers
Some things should never be controversial.A disabled woman or girl requesting a female caregiver should not [...]
From Michael Harriot: How a City Ignored the (Systemic) Rape, Murder and Terrorism of Black Women for Four Decades
updated from December 4, 2024"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed unti [...]
📺 Television Is Not Liberation
(No matter how many awards, episodes, or characters say otherwise)🎭 Television Is Entertainment—Not Protection
TV is not systemic cha [...]
🔥 Here’s How to Deal with Someone Who Always Chooses to Be Hurt
When someone in your life always chooses to have hurt feelings, especially over things that aren’t intended to be hurtful, it can feel like walking th [...]
Unbalanced: Society Polices Women and Pardons Men
We still live in a world where people -including women- nitpick women for their personal choices —
what they wear,whether they worship,whet [...]
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 [...]
Don’t Say You’re in Our Corner—Fight Like It
“What we’re fighting for is not a privilege. It is a right.” – Fannie Lou Hamer
Don’t say you’re in my corn [...]
💡 Why the Protests Against Kamala Harris Are Making Her More Relatable (w/quotes from Shirley Chisholm)
"We have been so patient and loyal ... and what has it gotten us? We want our full share now." ~ Shirley Chish [...]
Lifting As We Climb: The Radical Blueprint of the Black Women’s Club Movement
When Black women were excluded, they built their own.
They didn’t wait for permission. They didn’t wait for [...]
The Gish Gallop: When Overload Becomes a Weapon Against Survivors
There’s a tactic that shows up in debates, politics, in online videos, and—far too often—in the lives of Survivors. It’s called the Gish Gallop.
The [...]
💣 Beauty as a Battlefield: When We Compete, They Win
Let’s tell the truth:This world wants women to be at war with each other.
Not over justice.Not over safety.But over aesthetics.
It’s no accident t [...]
When the Gate Swings Open: The Floodgate Effect and the Harm That Follows
Some harms don’t happen in isolation.
They happen because someone was let in who shouldn’t have been.And then, no one shut the door behind them.
In [...]
Centering Safety: Honoring the Right to Request Female Carers
Some things should never be controversial.A disabled woman or girl requesting a female caregiver should not be met with outrage, mockery, [...]
When Media Protects Abuse, It Makes the World Unsafe for Everyday Women
We’ve said it before:What happens in media doesn’t stay in media.
When journalists, commentators, celebrities, and influencers:
[...]
They Know What They’re Doing: Why Abusers Target Neurodivergent People—Especially in Love
Let’s talk about something that far too often stays in the shadows:
Abusers know what they’re doing.And many of them actively seek out pe [...]
Why Must a Rape Survivor Prove She Was a “Good Victim” Before We Believe Her?
The crime was the perpetrator’s choice, not the victim’s failure to behave perfectly.There is something de [...]
“The Forgive and Overlook Habit”: Why the Crisis of Child Predators Isn’t Going Anywhere
The crisis of child predators isn’t going anywhere. Unless the adults change our harmful ways and change them [...]
They Teach Us to Watch Our Cups, Not to Question the Pour
🍷headed into the fourth of July, right?.......Freedom?
Because they’d rather keep us on defensethan dare teac [...]
Weaponized Moralism: The Silence That Screams
They call it compassion.But only when it protects male access.
They call it justice.But only when women are a [...]
Black History Month Means Honoring the Humanity of the Women Who Loved Us Here (Musical Playlist Included)
updated from 2/2/ 2025 Without Black women, the miracles of
Black history would not be possible.
So much of who I am, I ow [...]
Detachment Is Not Coldness—It’s Protection
They told you to go back.To be patient.To “love him through it.”To pour water on a man who doesn’t grow, doesn’t change, doesn’t offer safety, doesn’t [...]
🤲🏽 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 [...]
🌿 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 [...]
