In the push for restorative or alternative justice, one painful reality is too often left behind: 👉🏾 Victims have a right to safety. Not imagined safety.Not theoretical safety.Not “community-accountability-if-everyone-agrees” safety. …
Tonya GJ Prince
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🧩 The Price of Silence: Black Women, Coercive Control, and the Hidden Costs of “Unity”
There is a kind of violence that doesn’t leave bruises.A kind that hides behind charm, culture, tradition, “community.”A kind that preys on the idea that Black women are unbreakable. “Unrapeable”. …
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🧭 QUESTIONS TO DETECT REARTICULATION IN ACTION
1. Who is this “solution” really for? Does it center women and girls, or just placate the powerful? Who is being protected, and who is being managed? 2. What kind …
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🧩 REARTICULATION: When the System Repackages Harm in New Clothes
WARNING TO THE LOVING, THE NURTURING, THE HEALERS: The systems we fight do not always come with burning crosses or slurs. Sometimes, they show up as funding proposals, friendly slogans, …
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💣 In Just One Second: 12 Ways People Tell You They’re Pro-Abuser
(And Maybe Capable of Abuse Themselves) Sometimes it doesn’t take a full conversation.Sometimes it takes just one sentence, one smirk, one moment of silence—to tell you who a person really …
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🚨 Listen Closely. Believe Them.
Too many people overlook this. We want to believe that people are better than what they show us. But I urge you today:Listen—really listen—to people who empathize with abusive people. …
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When It’s Not Pride: 11 Ways Violence Against Black Women Hides Behind “Black Pride”
We lift up Black pride as sacred—a celebration of survival, brilliance, resilience, and the sacredness of our people. But pride without protection? Pride that silences the harmed to shield the …
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🏛️ What Rural Women Need from Policymakers
My professional advocacy work in domestic and sexual violence began in racially and economically diverse rural areas. Rural women experiencing domestic violence face unique, compounded challenges—yet policy responses rarely account …
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💔 Why It’s Harder: Unique Barriers Rural Women Face When Seeking Help for Abuse
When a woman living in a rural area makes the courageous decision to seek help, she’s not just up against her abuser—she’s up against an entire system that often isn’t …
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They taught us to pour and pour and pour.To give ‘til we vanish. But Sis, your best love—your warmest care, your fiercest protection, your most nourishing “yes”—was never meant to …