The Gate That Didn’t Trust Anyone (podcast episode)
The Gate That Didn't Trust AnyoneAt first glance, it's just an old wooden gate.It squeaks when it opens. It always swings shut. It st [...]
The Gift of Access to YOU (audio/podcast)
This episode unpacks how those lessons of survival can linger into adulthood, making us feel like we owe access to anyone who asks.....How often [...]
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 [...]
How to Really Let Go of Past Mistakes and Heal (audio)
How to Really Let Go of Past Mistakes and Heal [...]
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 [...]
✋🏽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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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 [...]
Sex-Based Social Control Is Not About Beauty. It’s About Access to Humanity.
Let’s talk about one of the most sinister tactics in the game:Sex-Based Social Control.
On the surface, it may look like beauty standards, pr [...]
When “Separation” Isn’t Safe: Why Women Need More Space, Not Less
A locked door matters more than a long explanation.
If a woman has to bargain, soften her voice [...]
Stop Calling It “Race Baiting”: Black Maternal Death Is a Life-or-Death Reality (podcast episode)
Black women speaking about maternal death are not “race baiting.” This is a call-out of minimization, [...]
Gaslighting on a National Scale: Why Treating Black Women Like a Burden Is Abuse, Not Oversight
Don’t Call It a Favor
The nerve—the absolute gall—to act like you're doing us a favor by ending discriminatio [...]
🛑 You Can’t Build Something Sacred on Disrespect
Let’s speak truth—because Survivors on healthy authentic healing journeys know this better than anyone:
You c [...]
What Does a Feminism That Includes You Actually Require?
It requires wholeness, not performance.
A feminism that includes Black women does not ask us to arrive as fragments—carefully edited, s [...]
Survivor Affirmation Video: I Am My Own Best Cheerleader
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A Woman-Centered Truth About FGM We Cannot Abandon (w/list of resource organizations)
updated from December 13, 2025
FGM victims’ fury as academics compare practice to cosmetic surgeryAny honest critique of global efforts t [...]
Imagine If We Told Men to “Be Kind” as Often as We Tell Women
You can absolutely tell who is male and who is female. Men have been raging at NataleeBFitness all week long. Ever since she announced that her new [...]
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 someone else’s story.
Au [...]
🔥 Self-Sourced Power: When the World Won’t Crown You, You Crown Yourself
There comes a time in the life of every Survivor, every truth-teller, every woman who’s been underestimated, overlooked, or left to fend for herself—w [...]
No More Empty Promises: What It Really Means to Support Prostituted Persons
Supporting Prostituted Persons Means More Than Just Words
"Shaming women doesn't work because that is not t [...]
When They Don’t See You as a Person, They Don’t Protect You as One
The objectification of Black people doesn’t stay on screen.It follows us into courtrooms, hospitals, shelters, [...]
Black women in London facing ‘crisis’ as higher femicide rates revealed
The figures have been obtained by the PA news agency from the Metropolitan Polic [...]
And Why Don’t Black Women Call the Police? (Graphic video posted by Ben Crump)
“The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no bl [...]
Alanda Cuffee Deserved Safety: When “A Small Argument” Reveals a Deadly Entitlement
Alanda Cuffee’s death is deeply sad, and the reported details are chilling.
Public reports say Alanda Cuffee, 39, was shot and killed in Escambia Cou [...]
We Told You.
We told you.We warned you.We begged you to listen.
We tried to explain what was coming down the road.We cried out when the signs were subtle, when [...]
Sexualization of “School Girls” Online
Stop Blaming Girls. Start Naming the Truth.
Let’s be honest.
The phrase “fatherless girls” is too often thrown around to explain w [...]
Lucy Diggs Slowe: She Protected Us in Silence So We Could One Day Speak
“Because boundaried spaces don’t build themselves—someone has to brave the silence first.”[WeSurviveAbuse.com]
Most people will tel [...]
FAQ: Why Would She Choose That Horrible Person?
Question: Why do some people who were abused seem to fall for the worst possible relationship partners? Answer: [...]
🧨 Myth: “Abuse Survivors Are Just Broken People Who Pick Bad Partners”
Truth: No, they are not.[WeSurviveAbuse.com]
This one’s personal. This one’s painful. And this one gets repeated far too often—in whisper [...]
Zainab Jama Is the Voice So Many Girls Have Been Waiting For
Zainab Jama, Miss World Somalia 2025, is not just a beauty queen—She is a truth-teller.A torchbearer.A fierc [...]
🖤 It Isn’t Discipline. It’s Domination Disguised as a Lesson.
(Inspired by “How Abusers Place Themselves Above Accountability” — WeSurviveAbuse.com)
Racism often hides ins [...]
Stay Out of Her Healing, You Weren’t There.
This is not about whether you think she was right or wrong.This is not about your definition of accountability [...]
🕊️ The Sisterhood Gag Order
When protecting him means punishing her.
Some women aren’t silenced by men.They’re silenced by other women.
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🌿 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 [...]
Why Manipulators Pretend to Share Your Values (Even When They Don’t)
Some people don’t believe in your mission, your healing, or your values.They just learn to sound like they do—because it gets them something.
Here’ [...]
Naming is Healing. Naming is Legacy
There is power in a name.
When you name an experience, you call it out of the shadows.When you name an injustice, you make it undeniable.When you nam [...]
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:
Mock women [...]
