Period Poverty in the United States

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It’s Not Always Hate—Sometimes It’s Hurt: Learning to Hear Men’s Vulnerability October 15, 2025
Somewhere along the way, the right of men—especially Black men—to say no got tangled up in our cultural discomfort with seeing men as fully human. When Prince said no to the lyric “Your butt is mine” in Michael Jackson’s Bad, he wasn’t being difficult. He was setting a boundary. He was saying, that line doesn’t […]
🖤 It Isn’t Discipline. It’s Domination Disguised as a Lesson. October 15, 2025
(Inspired by “How Abusers Place Themselves Above Accountability” — WeSurviveAbuse.com) Racism often hides inside the language of lessons.It calls control care. It calls domination discipline.It justifies cruelty as character-building. Here’s how racism disguises itself as teaching or order—while still protecting power: 1️⃣ Rewriting the StoryHistory shifts so that harm appears noble.Brutality becomes “civilization.”Slavery becomes “training.”Jim […]
When Cruelty Pretends to Be Care: The Lie Behind ‘I Was Just Teaching You a Lesson October 15, 2025
All of this, “we didn’t do the right thing to to teach you a lesson.” Yeah, that’s bs. They want control. Over YOU. When someone tries to convince you that their cruelty, meanness, or abuse was actually done for your own good or to teach you a lesson, that’s a form of emotional manipulation—specifically a […]

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