AFFIRMATIONS AND SELF LOVE
Women WILL Make a Scene When We Do Not Feel Calm When a Male Enters a Female Space
From the time we are little girls, the world trains us to keep the peace.To stay quiet.To stay pleasant.To never upset anyone — especiall [...]
WE Survive Abuse Podcast Episodes (during the summer months we focus on reading to kids)
Even Pain Has a Purpose: A Call to Men Who Have Lost Women They Love to Male Violence
The Transformative Power of PainMen, your pain over losing the women you love can be a transformative force. It’s not just personal — it’s polit [...]
By the Power of Self-Protection (podcast/audio)
In a world that often tells women to shrink, to please, and to ignore their instincts, self-protection is a revolutionary act.Join Tonya GJ Prince in [...]
Girls Do Not Owe Anyone Sexual Reparations (audio)
Girls Do Not Owe Anyone Sexual Reparations (audio recording) [...]
The Role of Homeownership in Women’s Liberation: Domestic Violence and Homelessness (podcast/audio)
In this episode, explore the critical intersection of domestic violence and homelessness, revealing how 38% of women escaping abuse face hou [...]
🎯Weaponized Hypotheticals Are Not Harmless — They’re Punishment for a Woman’s Freedom
updated from June 9 2025
Weaponized HypotheticalsDefinition: When people—often men—create imagined stories about a woman’s love life (“She probably [...]
CHILDREN DESERVE SAFETY
12 Burdens Growing Up In Dysfunctional Families Teaches You to Accept-and Why We Must Reject Them
In dysfunctional families and abusive relationships, women are often asked—no, expected—to tolerate things that should never be tolerated. These are [...]
VIOLATIONS
When the Mourning Is Selective: A Reflection on Silence, Justice, and Sacred Courage(audio version included)
updated from 2022LISTEN HEREBlack women also experience significantly higher rates of psychological [...]
Consent Never Came, But the Agreement Was Made
from WESurviveAbuse.com
No one asked her.No one asked the girl with trembling hands and a racing heart.No one [...]
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 c [...]
🔥 Druella Jones (Aunt Jonas), Alabama, 1915: The Woman Who Lit A Fire Freedom Remembers
updated from May 16 2025
Some women today get married on plantations.
OG rebellious women lit a match
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HEALING

Red Flag Alert: Unhinged Game Fans
Man Fatally Shoots Wife And Critically Injures Stepdaughter After Fight Over ‘Monday Night Football’: Sheriff
updated from 4/5/24
You [...]

⚡ Trust Yourself — Without Apology
“They may call you hateful. But what they won’t call you is gone — because you trusted yourself.”
Ignore the noise of people who do not know better. [...]

11 Ways to Maintain Your Cool When Life Has No Chill
originally published 12/22/16Circa 1980 something, New JerseyMy mother: "So, if everybody else goes crazy does that you mean you go crazy too?"Me:.... [...]
HERSTORY/HISTORY
How People Prompt or Lure Women to Prove Their Worth
"Why doesn't she leave? Why did she go back?"
We don't spend a lot of time examining what makes women doubt themselves. I look forward to t [...]
Rosa Parks: A Stealth Strategist Against Deceit, Manipulation, and Violence
updated from January 6, 2025 with new links and information
Let's be honest, the word "gaslighting" gets thrown around a lot these days. But for thos [...]
She Deserved Help: What Kitty Genovese’s Story Still Teaches Us About Silence, Judgment, and the Cost of Looking Away
I saw a video of a very young woman getting flipped into the pool yesterday. She was young, carefree, wearing a bikini and dancing with a young man. A [...]
END FEMICIDE
When Women Say No: Why Men Mocking Our Boundaries Is a New Low
We Are Protecting Our Bodies, Not Asking for Permission
There’s something deeply broken and dangerous happeni [...]
Erin Justice: The Worst That Could Happen
updated from May 31, 2023
Women and girls do not always survive rape.
&nbs [...]
Black Domestic Violence Victims Deserve Compassion. Not Cruelty Dressed as “Accountability.”
Let’s tell the truth:
Black women are often the last to be believed,the last to be protected,and the first to [...]
The Pain They Tell You to Swallow: On Disrespect, Dehumanization, and the Lie of Strength
They say, “Now’s not the time.”They say, “It’s not that serious.”They say, “Be the bigger person.”They say, “O [...]
LEGAL/COURTROOM

When the State Stops Saying “Mother”: Why Inclusive Language Must Still Include Women
Introduction
The issue is not that mothers will stop being mothers in real life.
Women will still carry babies through morning sickn [...]

Nell Carter: A Voice That Refused to Break
When I was a child, Nell Carter was one of my favorite entertainers. She still is. I had to share her with millions of other people though.
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The World Has Studied Women’s Reactions More Than Men’s Actions
The people carrying the pain and the burdens are often the people least heardThose with the most protection do not get to dictate the survival c [...]
LOVING SAFELY
Learning from the Loudon County Tragedy (updated)
(Updates below) Remember when they yelled: "This never happens." This tragedy was always preventable.Reaction audio: 4: [...]
12 Things Women Have Always Been Told Don’t Matter—But Actually Matter Deeply
We talk about domestic and sexual violence with so much more ease now-not enough but we are not who we used to be- it is easy to forget the [...]
10 Hard Truths About Men Who Have Been Violent in Relationships
Safety never comes from cruelty. One of the strongest predictors of future abuse is past abuse. Men who have harmed partners before are li [...]
END RAPE
Please Stop Signaling Support to Grown Men Accused of Harming Children
Start Showing Up for the People Who Need It Most
When someone is arrested for harming a child,we do not need [...]
Black Male Survivors of Rape Deserve to Be Seen, Heard, and Healed
Black male rape victims of other males are real.They exist. They’ve always existed.But for too long, they’ve [...]
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 [...]
False Strength vs. True Safety: What Real Protectors Look Like
It isn’t enough to expose the myths about unkind men pretending to be protectors.
Survivors, women, and co [...]
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 [...]
MANIPULATION
The Cage Looks Different, But It’s Still a Cage
Some men enforce gender roles by pushing women into cages:
Be obedient. Be soft. Be nurturing. Be silent.Other men wear those same gender roles l [...]
Abuse of Power in Spiritual Leadership: When Faith Is Used to Conceal Harm
For many of us, faith is a lifeline. A compass. A sanctuary.
But what happens when the very place we go to find peace becomes the stage for manipulat [...]
💔 Understanding Marital Rape: Consent Still Matters
In too many parts of the world—and even in the minds of too many people—rape inside of marriage is still not fully recognized as a crime.But here’ [...]
ART IS HEALING

I Will Survive: How Survivor Gloria Gaynor Keeps Inspiring Decades After the Release of Grammy Winning Song
originally published 2/8/ 2016At First I Was Afraid... When we have been wounded we must heal. To do that, I think we [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Cathy Hughes and The Quiet Storm: Healing on the Airwaves
“Good evening, sweetheart…”Those few words, whispered through radios across America, weren’t just an introduction—they wer [...]

They Loved the Style, Not the Black Woman: Esther Jones and the Betty Boop Lesson
updated from 11/1/23
Exploitation is a handthat smiles while taking.
It praises your light,then sells your [...]

Black Truth-Telling on Violence Was Never the Problem
"I've never seen or heard of anything like this!" Black people have been telling the truth about viol [...]

The Truth That Heals Podcast: Exit’s Director Alison Jayne Wilson
You can watch EXIT on Amazon Prime in the US. [...]

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 [...]

Power UP! Lauryn Hill and Doechi at Jazz in the Gardens
updated from March 9 2025
You didn't ignore the neighborhood strays when you were sitting out on the porch. At firs [...]

We Don’t Close Doors Around Here: When Women’s Privacy Becomes Negotiable, Women Are in Danger (w/affirmations)
Living in the West is not what makes a woman safe.Privacy is not modesty theater. It is part of bodily safety [...]

Jenifer Lewis Talks About Sexual Assault and Dealing with a Con Artist | Studio Q
This is a mighty woman! She survives AND she does the work to heal. A mighty woman indeed. Check out these jewels in the for [...]

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.
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