Author: Tonya GJ Prince
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The Missing Skill in Violence Prevention: Contextual Intelligence
When leaders simplify complex human lives to make policy easier, the [...]

Why Dismissing Boundaries Around the “N-Word” is a Form of Cultural Gaslighting
In the advocacy space, we talk constantly about boundaries. We tal [...]

Georgia Gilmore: How Black Women Outsmarted Jim Crow with Fish Frys
Fine. I will do it myself. -Black women's proverb
Black women despise [...]

When History Becomes Pressure: How Black Women Are Asked to Carry More
If learning about the burdens carried by Black women yesterday becomes [...]

Shame Has Never Been a Substitute for Justice
I deeply despise stories that depict women finding their way t [...]

Survivor Mary Lumpkin: The Woman Who Turned a Place of Pain Into a Place of Promise
Before history knew her as a symbol, Mary Lumpkin was a w [...]

The World Has Studied Women’s Reactions More Than Men’s Actions
The people carrying the pain and the burdens are often the people le [...]

Human Rights Organizations Should NEVER Tell Women and Girls to “Move”
The year is 2026. So-called leaders, writers, the academic class [...]

Nellie Jackson: After All Her Yeses, They Still Could Not Honor Her No
Because access is not respect. And entitlement is not love.
E [...]

Consent Is Freedom: A Woman’s Right to Belong to Herself
Affirmation:
My body belongs to me. My voice matters. My boun [...]