Tonya GJ Prince

  Where did people get this bizarre idea that solidarity doesn’t require respect and reciprocity…at a minimum? If you are able, you definitely want to avoid allowing people to recruit …

Mechelle Vinson was nineteen when she walked into a Washington, D.C., savings bank and began working as a teller-trainee in 1974. She worked hard, learned the business and rose through …

Taylor Townsend was sixteen years old and already the No. 1 junior girl in the world. She had won the Australian Open junior singles title, collected major doubles titles and …

I do not have to dismiss myself simply because someone else does. There is a dangerous distance between “we don’t know” and “there is nothing there.” Women often meet that …

Long before anybody could type a sentence into a machine and receive a realistic image seconds later, women and children already knew about grooming. Survivors knew about secrecy. Manipulation. Sexual …

We’ve been conditioned to treat “no” like a legal defense. We feel the need to back it up with a deposition: “I’m busy,” “I have a boyfriend,” “Maybe next time.” …

  There are many ways to hide violence. A locked door will do it. So will money, shame, family loyalty, professional prestige, religious authority, fear and a community determined not …

updated from March 24 2025   Interesting fact: Before his murders were discovered, serial killer Ted Bundy volunteered at a suicide crisis hotline in Seattle called the Seattle Crisis Clinic in 1971. The …

Her name was Jeanne Nardal. Most people came to know her as Jane. She was born in Martinique on August 1, 1902, one of seven daughters in the remarkable Nardal …

Long before many people had language for what we now call ‘Black feminism’, a Black woman from Martinique was sitting in France thinking about Black women, race, culture, belonging and …