Drug-Facilitated Rape: What Women Need to Know About Ketamine, Alcohol and Emerging Drugs
For years, women were warned about the “date-rape drug.” Watch your drink. Don't leave your glass unattended. Be careful if a stranger of [...]
Juneteenth Reminds Us: Delayed Truth Still Matters (audio)
Freedom has always had an important relationship with truth.On Juneteenth, we remember a painful reality. Freedom had already been dec [...]
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 [...]
FAQ About Trauma, Abuse, & Violence with Gary Jones LCSW (audio)
FAQ About Trauma, Abuse, and Violence With GaryJones LCSW [...]
Called Out of Our Names: When Did Respect Become Too Much to Ask? (audio ep)
***"Relax. It's just a word."In this episode, please notice that while people may be telling you to "lean back" and accept every bit of fool [...]
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 [...]
Women Are Not Required to Be Available
No one could have predicted how this year would end.It bent sharply. Again and again.
Just when people thought they understood the terrain, t [...]
💔 They’ve Been Ignoring Our Pain for Generations. But We Still Feel It.
On yesterday there was a non-subtle outcry on at least one social media application calling for Black people to go to Los Angeles, California and ge [...]
Why Must We Carry Everyone? The Heavy Expectation Placed on Black Women’s Healing
She wasn’t just expected to heal. She was expected to heal everyone around her too—without flinching, without resting, without breaking.”Why i [...]
Some of Us Can’t Pretend Institutions Are Harmless
It’s a strange kind of exhaustion—working beside women who understand abuse in private relationships, yet act confused when the same dyn [...]
Power Dynamics and Homicide: Examining the Chiquita Tate Case
This is a tragic ending to a beautiful and bright light that challenges a lot of myths about domes [...]
News Roundup: Women on the Frontlines
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Why Females Are the Most Vulnerable Group of Human Beings
Across cultures, eras, and systems, females are positioned as the most vulnerable group of human beings — not [...]
Why “The Last RECORDED Lynching” IS NOT the Same As “The LAST Lynching”
White Americans desire to be free from a past they do not want to remember,
while Black Americans remain bou [...]
The Eye of the Child Sexual Abuse Survivor: A Black Man Takes the Mic
It is my honor to highlight the words of author Tremayne Moore as he courageously shares his story and offers advice for healing: Hi. My n [...]
Domestic Violence Is Rising While Survivor Services Are Disappearing: What the Latest Data Reveals
I don’t know if you saw this, but while overall violent crime is reportedly on the decline, domestic violence in the U.S. has actually risen by ab [...]
Primal Protection: The Little-Known Sleep Habit of Most Trauma Survivors
I saw this online from Dr. Mozelle Martin and wanted to share it. Self-awareness is a powerful thing, is it not? .-Tonya GJ Prince
(Trauma -includin [...]
Familiarity Doesn’t Make Stranger Abuse Irrelevant
There’s a manipulation tactic that keeps slipping into our public conversations—one that says:“Most pe [...]
Women Are Losing Ground: 13 Alarming Signs Life Is Getting More Dangerous for Women and Girls (w TikTok video)
There is wisdom in women noticing when something is changing before everyone else is willing to name it.
Th [...]
Whispered Civil Rights Movement Secrets: Fannie Lou Hamer the Truth Teller
There are people—loud and determined—who would have you believe that the systemic rape of women of color [...]
Male Deception Gets a Pass
And Women Who Tell the Truth Pay the Price.
Let’s tell the truth that too many are afraid to name:
Male de [...]
Curves, Control & Convenient Amnesia: The 90s and Early 2000s Edition
The 90s were velvet and vinyl,grunge and glitter,a time when girl groups rose—but the grip on our bodies never loosened.
We still had to stay tig [...]
🚨 Fear-Based Manipulation Isn’t Love—It’s Control Dressed as Concern
Fear-Based ManipulationDefinition: Using hypothetical threats or worst-case scenarios to control or limit a woman’s autonomy.
It rarely sounds like [...]
When Men Encourage Boundary Violations, Women Pay the Price
updated from June 7 2025
Why It’s Wrong—And Sometimes Criminal—for Men to Overrule a Woman’s “No”
In every corner of society—online and offline—ther [...]
Dear Survivor: You Were Not Born to Absorb Abuse or Protect Harmful Men
A Message for Every Woman Who Was Taught to Shrink Herself to Keep the Peace
The violence against oppressed communities is real, but they l [...]
Black Women: Unshakable, Unstoppable, Undeniable
When people build entire campaigns against you, they recognize your power even if YOU do not.
Black womanhood has never been up for debate. [...]
If You Love Us, Why Are You Fighting for the Right to Hurt Us?
Harm does not always arrive announcing itself as hatred. Sometimes it comes smiling, agreeing with 80 percent of what you say, and spending [...]
You Were Seeking Safety, Not Sex: A Truth for Survivors of Childhood Abuse
When a child is sexually abused, too much of the truth gets twisted by more vocal and crafty adults. And chil [...]
Preserving Women’s Energy for Liberating Women and Girls: Girl Child Marriage in Nepal
Can you imagine being pressured to center males in work for women and girls in a world where there is still gi [...]
Maya Angelou Went Silent After Trauma. What Her Story Can Teach Us About Children Who Cannot Speak
There is something else we should remember when reading the childhood stories of Maya Angelou, or anyone else [...]
There Is No Bad Day to Tell the Truth
To every Survivor who has ever hesitated, second-guessed, or swallowed the truth to protect someone else's com [...]
Please Stop Telling Survivors, “Men Wouldn’t Go That Far.” History Says Otherwise.
updated from March 24 2025 Interesting fact:
Before his murders were discovered, serial killer Ted Bundy volunteered at a suicide crisis [...]
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 shock. Not to divide.
But to survive.
We u [...]
📌Allyship Doesn’t Come With a Dating Requirement — Your Body Was Never Part of the Deal
updated from June 9. 2025
It's so tricky out here these days...
Let’s make something abundantly clear:
Being an ally to a group, a cause, or a comm [...]
🌿 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 [...]
