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Jim Crow and the Erasure of Black Womanhood October 16, 2025
Jim Crow and the Erasure of Black Womanhood In the era of Jim Crow, Black women were denied full personhood. Their bodies were brutalized. Their cries we re ignored. Laws designed to “protect” white women were never extended to them. We, who bear the scars of systemic harm, will continue to name — to call […]
Silence Keeps the Cycle Alive. Love Tells the Truth. October 15, 2025
When scandals break — like the recent Young Republicans (ages 18-40 including many influential professionals) chat leak — the pattern is familiar. The men are called out. The men are condemned. But notice who disappears into the background. White women often move quietly through these storms, untouched. No questions asked. No accountability demanded. Even when […]
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 […]