Women and Girl's Rights
Why Is Every Problem Affecting Women Treated Like Feminism’s Job to Solve?
"For example, it is estimated that one out of every three women in the world has suffered sexual assault or violence from an intimate par [...]
WE Survive Abuse Podcast Episodes
Big Mama Thornton: I Stand Up for Myself For As Long As I Can
Big Mama Thornton, who originally recorded the classic song "Hound Dog", was a pioneering artist who broke barriers and demanded respect in a ma [...]
“Lead with Love” Includes Women and Girls Safety Too (short audio message)
Lead with LoveThat's what they say.And when they do, never let anyone tell you that leading with love doesn't include women and girls and our [...]
19 James Baldwin Truths and Affirmations That Still Strengthen the Human Spirit (on audio)
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19 James Baldwin Truths and Affirmations That Still Strengthen the Human Spirit [...]
Women Healing Among One Another is Not Hate (audio short)
Can human rights organizations protect multiple groups without asking women and girls to disappear?It truly bothered me that Amnesty took aim at a [...]
What Women Are Still Waiting to Hear (podcast episode)
Why won't they say our names?In an era when nearly every issue has a spokesperson, why do so many women and girls feel u [...]
CHILDREN DESERVE SAFETY
New Read: The Handbook of Research on Trauma with Children, Working with High Poverty Schools and Communities
LINK@supreme.neck.protector #Trauma #Youth #MentalHealth #Neurodivergent #BAND #Read ♬ original sound - Supreme.Neck.ProtectorThe Handbo [...]
HERSTORY/HISTORY
WE Are the Calvary: Believing the Silence
I thought you’d speak when they put rapists in women’s prisonsI thought you’d speak when a man was made CEO of a rape shelterI thought you’d s [...]
Dear Survivors: Being Heard Was Never the Same as Being Believed
The silencing of survivors has never meant the absence of knowledge. It has meant control of the story.For generations, the loudest voices describ [...]
When Black Women Speak About Violence, Too Many People Attack the Voice Instead of the Harm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsk8VmR4KCANow streaming on Amazon PrimeThere is something very familiar happening around Is God Is. (The C [...]
VIOLATIONS
They Knew Her Face. In 1997, Waris Dirie Made Them Hear Her Story.
In 1997, Waris Dirie did something that deserves to be remembered as an act of extraordinary courage. She spok [...]
Myth: “Women Are Safe as Long as There Are Good Men Around”
Reality: Women Are Only as Safe as the Boundaries and Protections We Demand
One of the most misleading and ha [...]
Male Delusions Are Potentially Lethal
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🚨 Signs of Harm Justification
If you’ve ever had to convince someone that what hurt you was actually wrong… this is for you.Some people [...]
HEALING

The Overlooked Truth: Asexuality, Boundaries, and Survivor Safety
Conversations about safety, consent, and boundaries are vital, yet there is a community that often gets overlooked: asexual individuals. Asexuality [...]

Affirmation: Silence the voice of self-criticism (with video & audio)
New video linkI silence the voice of self-criticism.I don’t even hear self-criticism speak when it tries to get my attention. It doesn’t have anything [...]

The Ancient Words of Womanhood: Feminine Power Before ‘Femininity’
Know this: Long before present day calls for women to embrace our power,
women have been embracing our birthright power!- Tonya GJ Prince
In toda [...]
END FEMICIDE
When Black Women Speak About Violence, Too Many People Attack the Voice Instead of the Harm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsk8VmR4KCANow streaming on Amazon PrimeThere is something very fam [...]
✊🏾 Women Deserve Safety Without Apology
It is not hateful to name a reality:The same laws that allow trans-identified males to enter women’s spaces [...]
The Four Pillars of Oppression: Misogyny, Gynophobia, Sexism, and Patriarchy
Women do not suffer oppression by accident. The systems that harm us—misogyny, gynophobia, sexism, and patriar [...]
9 Reasons Why Making Laws Around Beliefs That Serve a Few While Harming Most is Dangerous
Laws are meant to serve and protect everyone, not just a chosen few. But time and time again, history shows [...]
LEGAL/COURTROOM

🖤 12 Ways Black Women Are Harmed When Men Weaponize Oppressive Systems
🖤 1. Demanding Grace While Denying Ours
Black women are often expected to extend endless empathy, understanding, and forgiveness—especially to Black [...]

They Knew Her Face. In 1997, Waris Dirie Made Them Hear Her Story.
In 1997, Waris Dirie did something that deserves to be remembered as an act of extraordinary courage. She spoke.She was already an internationally [...]
How Some Well-Meaning Proclamations Contribute to a Culture of Abuse and Victim Blaming
Some proclamations are written or spoken to defend groups that people want to protect. Understandable. When you start talking over victims [...]
LOVING SAFELY
Lena Baker: The Innocent Woman America Executed | True Story of Injustice and Too Little, Too Late Apology
You have no business waiting for anyone to confirm that you are in danger. [...]
Why Do Some Men Bash Good Men Rather Than Learning From Them?
Facts…why men rush to social media to bash Klay Thompson and Russell Wilson. pic.twitter.com/7O3U0642rm
— Fck_Yaya🎧✍️🏾 (@FckYaya) Novem [...]
How People Lose Themselves: One Compromise at a Time
We don't do any of ourselves any favors when we believe that coercion, abuse, and loss of rights happen to "stupid or weak people".
People [...]
END RAPE
🔥 The Price of Loyalty to the Lie
Some silence isn’t ignorance. It’s allegiance.
There are women who didn’t know.There are women who didn’t see [...]
Narrative Control: One More Way Survivors Get Silenced
There’s something you need to know about how survivors are treated after they speak out.
It doesn’t always lo [...]
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 [...]
The Manifestation of Emotional Abuse Can Alter Your Life? – Out Loud With Claudia Jordan
“People think it’s easy to just leave a toxic relationship. But what they don’t see is how it starts. Just [...]
AFFIRMATIONS AND SELF LOVE
Why Setting Boundaries Feels Like Breaking Rules You Never Agreed To
You finally speak up.You say, “I can’t do that.”You say, “I don’t feel safe.”You say, “That’s not okay with me.”
And suddenly… it’s like you broke so [...]
Survivor Affirmations: I Love Spending Time with Me
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They Hope You Never Realize How Powerful You Already Are
🌹 They Hope You Don’t See It
There is something they hope you never realize.Something that terrifies them.
It’s not your weakness.It’s your power.
[...]
THE SHOP
🌿 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 [...]
ART IS HEALING

The Velvet Rope Tour’s Boldest Moment: Janet Jackson Confronts Domestic Violence Onstage
I got the opportunity to see Janet Jackson on The Velvet Rope tour but I did not see "What About" performed live. I saw this [...]

Around These Parts We Support Survivor Megan Thee Stallion
Megan Thee Stallion is more than a chart-topping artist—she's a symbol of resilience, strength, and unwavering courage. In [...]

CLOSED FOR RIOTS: How One Black Woman Riots Against Racism
Update: This was published August 30, 2015. Remember that day? I do. Driver Samuel DuBose was shot in the head by a ca [...]

Remembering Patrick Swayze: When Art Becomes Healing
Patrick Swayze was more than a heartthrob.
He was a force — a man who turned pain into rhythm, who moved through fire and s [...]

Losing Three Icons, Carrying Their Light: The Power of Musical Legacy
Angie Stone’s Music Pulled Us Through—And Now, She’s Gone.Angie Stone has passed, and somehow, it still doesn’t feel rea [...]

UnSilenced: Betty White
In the 1950s, a period marked by segregation and racial discrimination, Betty White made a bold move on her variety show, "T [...]

🎤💰 Money, Respect & the Woman’s Mic: Black Women’s Songs About Money, Power, and Respect
updated from April 2025
"We're supposed to pretend that if we are "good girls," a "good man" will find us and give us every [...]

Songs Survivors Play to Survive Disaster
I TriedOne day years ago I was trying to make it through a challenge.
In order to get through it I came up with [...]

Preview from The Girl From Salonika Documentary Film
From Award-winning Filmmaker Alison Jayne Wilson:Here is a breath of fresh air for you which I think we all desperatel [...]

Maleness Is Portable Power: 20 Reasons Women Are Still Asked to Move Over
updated from June 22, 2025
Nina Simone's song, “Four Women," is powerful because each woman has been made into [...]

Book: Beat Face, The Story of Surviving Myself and My Abuser
This author and I follow one another on social media. I once complimented her for being "chameleon" like. Her lo [...]
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