As an advocate, you find that women are often relieved to talk with someone about the “red flags” we might ignore because we aren’t sure whether we’re being too harsh …
Tonya GJ Prince
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AbuseFemale HealthFemale Health and SafetyHealingRED FLAGSRelationshipsSafeguardingSafetyTeensUncategorizedViolationWomenWomen's Rights
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Female SafetyCivil Rights & Social Justicefemale health civil rightsHerstory/HistoryViolationViolence Against WomenWomenWomen's Rights
The Dangerous Man Does Not Always Look the Way We Were Told
When violence against women becomes visible as a pattern, men who possess some socially valued characteristic have repeatedly had an avenue for saying, in effect, “You cannot mean men like me.” …
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Female Health and SafetyCoercionDECEPTIONfemale health civil rightsGroomingIn the NewsJustice is Authentic LoveLegal/CourtroomManipulationMisogynyRED FLAGSRelationshipsSafe Boundaried SpacesSafeguardingSafetyTRUTHVictims RightsViolation
We Cannot Keep Telling Women to Be More Accommodating While Warning Them That Manipulation Is Becoming Harder to Detect
Something strange is happening in the advice women are being given. We are living through an extraordinary period of sophisticated fraud. Government agencies routinely warn us about romance scammers, fake …
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“It’s easier this way” can sound like a small decision. Let him choose the restaurant. Don’t bring that subject up tonight. Invite the relative who always causes trouble. Laugh off …
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AbuseAbuse of PowerCivil RightsCivil Rights & Social JusticeCoercionConsentCultureDECEPTIONFaith in StormsFaith/SpiritualityFemale Civil RightsFemale HealthFemale Health and Safetyfemale health civil rightsFemicideFeminism/WomanismHerstory/HistoryHuman TraffickingLoving SafelyPowerSafetySelf careSelf LoveSelf WorthSPEAKSurviving DailyWisdomWomanism/FeminismWomen of Color
Women Are Not a Feeling. We Are Not Yours to Define.
originally published in 2025 There is a dangerous lie being whispered and shouted in this world:That a woman is a feeling.That our existence—our lives, our flesh, our blood, our history—is …
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Sometimes a woman says, “I can do whatever I want.” And technically, she can. There may be no locked door, no written rule, no direct command telling her what she …
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Before You Can Recognize Safety, Maybe You Need to Know What Safety Feels Like
We spend a lot of time teaching women how to recognize danger. Learn the red flags. Watch for controlling behavior. Notice manipulation. Pay attention when someone refuses to respect your …
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7 Things to Know About María Elena Moyano, the Afro-Peruvian Woman Who Organized Women and Refused to Surrender to Fear
Sometimes history gives us a woman whose life makes the word courage feel too small. María Elena Moyano was born in Lima, Peru, in 1958. She would become an Afro-Peruvian …
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Before They Called It Women’s Rights: 7 Ways Black Women in Colonial Peru Were Already Claiming Power
Women have been finding one another and making a way for a very long time. We are not beginning. We are continuing…. A particular feeling comes over me when history …
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Less Policing Women’s Relationships. More Recognizing the Patterns Around Us.
If we can take our eyes off the individual women long enough to study the system around her. We might finally see who has been moving the walls. I don’t …