I see you. You see me. We see one another. There are groups who are targeted because of who they are — yet the moment they try to name that truth, pe
I see you. You see me. We see one another.
There are groups who are targeted because of who they are — yet the moment they try to name that truth, people rush to silence them. Let’s be specific, because the harm is specific.
The crosshairs are specific. And Survivors deserve language that reflects reality, not denial.
1. Indigenous people are targeted because their existence challenges the very systems built on taking from them. (Missing Murdered and Indigenous Women is not imagined. Colonization is not imagined.)
2. Young people are targeted because predators rely on inexperience, trust, and curiosity to gain access.
3. Black women are targeted because society continues to benefits from our labor, nurturing, brilliance, and resilience while refusing to protect us. Refusing to listen to us.
4. Women in general are targeted because male violence is a global pattern — not an individual misunderstanding but we keep pretending that it is and putting men in charge who reinforce that myth.
5. Poor people are targeted because poverty makes it easier for abusers to isolate, control, and exploit.
6. Disabled people are targeted because predators assume they can manipulate, overpower, or discredit them.
7. Children are targeted because they cannot fight back, and adults too often refuse to listen.
8. College girls are targeted because institutions protect reputations over safety.
9. People who do not speak the dominant language are targeted because isolation makes reporting and resisting harder.
10. People with mental illness are targeted because abusers weaponize stigma to silence and discredit them.
These are not accidents. These are not “misunderstandings.” These are targeted patterns of harm — and naming them is the first act of protection, clarity, and truth.
When we name the harm clearly, we reclaim the power that violence, denial, and dismissal try to steal. We refuse to be gaslit into silence. We refuse to pretend that targeted groups somehow imagine the very patterns that history, data, and everyday life keep confirming.
Speaking the truth is not division — it is light in darkness. We can turn on the light.
And every time one of us tells the truth out loud, we leave a trail of clarity for the next person walking through the dark. This is how we keep each other alive. This is how we build spaces with boundaries, rooms where we tell the truth, and spaces rooted in reality, not wishful thinking. Naming the harm is not negativity — it is survival, wisdom, and devotion.
Affirmations
• I have the right to name what has harmed me and people like me.
• My clarity is not an attack — it is the truth.
• I honor the truth even when others fear it.
• My voice is steady, sacred, and allowed to speak specifics.
• I do not shrink to make others comfortable with the patterns that endanger us.
• I set boundaries around my safety, my body, and my spirit.
• I am part of a long line of people who survived by telling the truth out loud.
• My courage to name the harm strengthens others who have been silenced.
• I walk with wisdom, ancestral discernment, and the right to be protected.