Thursday, October 22, 2026

We Need to Talk About the Hostility Directed at Women Who Speak

Helen Haines: A Woman Who Defended Women’s Safety Now Fights to Recover From a Brutal Attack

21 Questions About Women, Sex, and Women’s Rights

10 Things I Applaud About J.K. Rowling’s Defense of Women’s Rights

Speaking About Racism Is Not the Same as Causing It

12 Powerful Lessons from “The Hooters Murders Deadly Shift”: What We Must Do Better to Protect Women

When a Girl’s Body Becomes a Discussion About What Men Want:...
Dr. Cecelia Baldwin: Someone Not Liking You is Not a Problem...
When a Female Student Reports Rape, Why Is She the One...
Chief Theresa Kachindamoto Did Not Wait for More Girls to Be...
Why Is Strangulation Rising? What Experts Say About Choking, Porn, and...
Shelter Full or Closed? Where Survivors Can Still Find Help in...
10 Signs Your Child Advocacy Is Truly Child-Centered
We Followed Farrah Fawcett. Then The Burning Bed Showed Us a...

Women Are Sounding the Alarm Because We Have Seen What Happens When...

Trending Now

Ending the Brutality of Medical Racism Begins with Listening to Patients
Surrender Your Ground: The Ugly Truth About Girls and Safety (audio)
STOP Incest/STOP Child Sexual/Abuse, with Author Barbara Joy Hansen
Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2024: Truth
The BIG Boundaries Issue for Survivors

Miss Evers’ Boys: Not Everyone Who Helps You Feel Comfortable Is...

Trending Again

65 Beliefs Some Men Hold About Women: Control, Boundaries, and...
12 Ways Communities & Families Normalize Predators — and Destroy...
Helen Haines: A Woman Who Defended Women’s Safety Now Fights...
People Don’t Just “Ignore Red Flags” — They’re Protecting Something
Stop Teaching Girls to Lose Gracefully: They Deserve Adults Who...
Women Are Sounding the Alarm Because We Have Seen What...
Miss Evers’ Boys: Not Everyone Who Helps You Feel Comfortable...
When a Female Student Reports Rape, Why Is She the...
Chief Theresa Kachindamoto Did Not Wait for More Girls to...
We Followed Farrah Fawcett. Then The Burning Bed Showed Us...
🚩 Red Flag: When Someone Is Offended by Your Boundaries
Only 2% “Owned” Slaves?” The Dangerous Game of Subtracting Context
The Fable of the Flame that Would Not Bow: The...
No, Feminists Didn’t “Give Up a Happy Home.” We Fought...
From Michael Harriot: How a City Ignored the (Systemic) Rape,...
Crossover: When Harm Happens But the Apology Does Not (audio/video)
Scapegoats Are Chosen, Not Found: How Harm Protects Itself by...
When History Becomes Pressure: How Black Women Are Asked to...
Naming is Healing. Naming is Legacy

Women's Safety

Holistically Rah: You need to stop being nice and start...
“I Told Her” Is About You—Not the Victim
Listen to Warnings from Girls
Dr. Tracey Marks: Why Self-Love Has Nothing to Do with...
HE Chose Violence
6 Ways Asking for Help Enriches Your Life
Surviving Abuse: Women's Health and Generational Trauma
If You Think Women Are Worried About Seven Athletes, You...
Because I Don’t Want To: The Power of Women’s Final...
Stop Calling It ‘Inclusion’ If You Aren’t Providing ‘Safety’ for...
🚫 It Violates Women’s Boundaries: Abuse Disguised as Entitlement
When Safety Isn’t Simple: How Domestic Violence Hits Differently for...

Protecting Children

“Demand Transparency When Women’s and Children’s Safety Is at Stake”
Male Deception Gets a Pass
10 Truths About Grooming: What It Is and What It...
The Unseen Burden: Black Eldest Daughters and the Weight of...

For More on Child Safety: Rosaschildren.com

The Right to Say “NO” is Mine: Youth Edition (video)
To the Misguided, Misdirected, Mislead, and Misinformed, about Child Sexual Abuse
Why Does Society Make it Difficult for Survivors of Rape & Abuse to Come Forward? Part 2
Jim Crow Was About Stripping Boundaries-Not Setting Them
A Book and Film I Recommend: Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Bullies and Cowards: A Natural Alliance in the Abuse of Women and Vulnerable Adults

What's Everybody Reading

Top of the posts
Black Women Have Carried the Community Long Enough. When Will OUR Safety Become a Priority?
Stop Teaching Girls to Lose Gracefully: They Deserve Adults Who Will Fight for Them Too
Women Are Sounding the Alarm Because We Have Seen What Happens When Institutions Get Safety Wrong
Speaking About Racism Is Not the Same as Causing It
Miss Evers’ Boys: Not Everyone Who Helps You Feel Comfortable Is Helping You Stay Safe
When “I’ll Kill Myself If You Leave” Becomes Abuse: 15 Things Women Need to Know About Suicide Threats and Emotional Blackmail
📢 Hidden Herstory: The Leesburg Stockade Girls
When a Girl’s Body Becomes a Discussion About What Men Want: Somalia’s FGM Debate
10 Clear Signs He Doesn’t Respect You (And What Survivors Must Know About the Programming That Keeps Us Silent)
When Someone Tries to Humiliate You and Take Your Name: Two Abuse Tactics Survivors Should Know (audio ep)

WE Survive Abuse Podcast

10 Clear Signs He Doesn’t Respect You (And What Survivors...
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The Empty Chair: When Solidarity Does Not Require Self-Abandonment (audio)
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Crossover: When Harm Happens But the Apology Does Not (audio/video)

Media

Silenced Prey: Unsolved murders of Black women in Chicago leave puzzling pattern

March 23, 2025

What is Going on With Social Media Influencers and Domestic Violence? Part 1

July 2, 2024

Survivor Affirmations: My Health Story Matters and My Voice is Unafraid (video short)

July 13, 2025

What The Women of Brewster Place Teaches Us About Access, Isolation, and the Right to Move Freely

July 31, 2026

Institutional Sexual Violence: Can There Be Consent When One Person Controls the Door?

October 1, 2026

The Savvy Working Mom: Setting Intellectual Boundaries At Work

August 24, 2025

You Don’t Have to Stay Where You’re Not Safe

July 4, 2025

Jane Nardal Was Writing About Black Internationalism in Paris in 1928

September 4, 2026

AFFIRMATIONS

📌Allyship Doesn’t Come With a Dating Requirement — Your Body...
“Lead with Love” Includes Women and Girls Safety Too (short...
Affirmations for Parents Trying to Keep the Family Close

Legal, Courtroom, and with action.....Justice

Black History Month Means Honoring the Humanity of the...

The Lie She Tells Herself: When Women Protect the...

A Lot of Movements Need Black Women. But Do...

Why Is Every Problem Affecting Women Treated Like Feminism’s...

No One Hands Women Safety. We Claim It, Protect...

Not All Submission Looks Like Sunday School

Playing Victim or Using Wisdom to Protect Yourself? Why...

Jim Crow Had Graves Attached to It

Speaking About Racism Is Not the Same as Causing It
by Tonya GJ Prince
12 Powerful Lessons from “The Hooters Murders Deadly Shift”: What...
by Tonya GJ Prince
Women Are Sounding the Alarm Because We Have Seen What...
by Tonya GJ Prince
Miss Evers’ Boys: Not Everyone Who Helps You Feel Comfortable...
by Tonya GJ Prince

Women's History

Why Did Our Grandmothers Have So Many Children — and Why It Wasn’t About Sex or Desire

Women Have Heard “Of Course We Mean You Too” Before

The Power of Healing Spaces: Why Race-Specific Healing Groups Are as Vital as Sex-Specific Ones (audio/podcast)

When Older Women Are Told to Give Until It Hurts

The Fairytale Behind “Why Didn’t She Call the Police?”
The Conversation That Keeps Missing the Point on Violence Against...
When Violence Enters the Home, Children Bleed Too—Even Without a...
Your Body Knows the Truth: Letting Survivors Define Abuse and...
The Redirection Trap: How Conversations About Women Get Hijacked (And...
Wear What You Want. Be Safe. But That Is Not...
They Can’t Always Find the Right Words. But They Still...
The Double Standard: Why Black Women Carry Everyone Else’s Accountability

Womanism and Feminism....Because Women's safety, heard voices, and Liberation is the Goal

When “Sisterhood” is a Setup: The Weaponization of Love Bombing to Enforce Male Violence

When “Sisterhood” is a Setup: The Weaponization of Love Bombing to Enforce Male Violence

She Caught the Girls Before They Fell: Victoria Earle Matthews and the War Against Trafficking (1861–1907)

They Know Exactly Who They Are

Keep Your Eye on Jonah Wheeler: The Young Democrat Asking His Party to Think Again

Survivors Speak Truth: John Lewis Speaks Truth on Black America’s Fight for Justice

Women Under Watch: Films About Institutional Control of Women

SurvivorAffirmations.com

Why Are Women Expected to Compromise Their Safety?
I Don’t Have to Explain the Boundaries That Keep Me Safe
Are You Still Protecting People Who Never Protected You? 5 Powerful Questions to Break the Cycle
Grief Comes Back Again and Again. So Can Love.
Inspired by Gil Scott-Heron: 10 Affirmations on Deserving Respect for Survivors
Behind the Wall by Tracy Chapman: When a Woman’s Cries for Help Are Heard, but Help Never Comes

RosasChildren.com

Did the U.S. Justice Department Remove Child Sex Trafficking Information? What Parents and Advocates Should Know
The Children Are in the Philippines. The Men Paying for Their Sexual Abuse Are in America. CNN Investigates.
When Your College Student Is in Trouble: Build More Than One Layer of Support
The Sleepover Dilemma That Comes with Parenting a Black Child
Some of Us Remember Surya Bonaly’s Face. That Is Why We Are Watching the Girls Now.
Why Are Kids Going Hungry at School? The Truth About School Lunch Debt

BraidtheLadder.com.....Please Donate items for Textured Hair to Shelters and Foster Care Charities

Black Women Should Not Have to Change Our Hair to Climb the Ladder (w/example video link)
Beautiful Things Require Care: Why We Need to Listen Better When Young Black Women Talk About Their Hair
People With Opinions Like Lauren Boebert Are the Reason We Need to Pass the Crown Act
Health and Safety Issues Include Black Hair Care Products
Black Women are Human Beings Not Hair Mannequins
FDA misses deadline to propose ban on formaldehyde in hair-straightening products

BrighterFaith.com

Mother Willie Mae Ford Smith: The Gospel Music Pioneer Who Taught Generations How to Sing Their Faith
Say Amen, Somebody: 10 Fascinating Things About the Gospel Music Documentary That Preserved a Beautiful Part of Black American History
The Behavior You See Is Not Necessarily the Whole Child: Giving Struggling Children More Grace
BrighterFaith: When a Mother Says She Is Not All Right, Church, People of Faith Please, Hear Her
Gary Indiana Needs Our Help to Make it Through the Storm
Myth vs. Fact: Are 93% of Sex Offenders Religious?