There is something particularly sad about a woman becoming one of the world’s great symbols of female sexuality while privately struggling with an illness rooted in her reproductive health, enduring …
Tonya GJ Prince
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“Lead with Love” Includes Women and Girls Safety Too (short audio message)
Lead with Love That’s what they say. And when they do, never let anyone tell you that leading with love doesn’t include women and girls and our safety and rights. …
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When the Mask Matters More Than the Truth, Survivors Are Pushed to Disappear
There is a reason people cling so tightly to labels when harm is exposed. Often, it is not confusion. It is fear. Fear of admitting they were misled. Fear of …
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They’d Say You Asked For It: The Cost of a Woman’s Truth in a World That Loves a Lie
When you watch Thelma & Louise, you aren’t just watching a movie; you’re watching a masterclass in how society sets up a trap for a woman before she even opens …
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When Women Call for Help—and the System Does Not See Someone Worth Protecting
We are nowhere close to being able to collapsing women’s issues into total invisibility……Maybe in thousands of years or something, but not now. Sometime AFTER people learn to listen to …
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Keep Your Eye on Jonah Wheeler: The Young Democrat Asking His Party to Think Again
Every so often, a politician appears who is interesting not because you agree with everything he says, but because he appears willing to say something his own political tribe does …
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Who Decided Black Women Weren’t Feminine?
A movement does not become more compassionate by asking the vulnerable to become invisible. True justice makes more room without removing the people who were already standing there. Who …
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WE Survive Abuse Book Club: The Quiet Zone
The Quiet Zone authored by Petal Kimberly Samuel There is a kind of quiet that feels like freedom. The house after everyone has gone to sleep. Sitting in the car …
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Maya Angelou Went Silent After Trauma. What Her Story Can Teach Us About Children Who Cannot Speak
There is something else we should remember when reading the childhood stories of Maya Angelou, or anyone else who survived something overwhelming Adults cannot travel backward in time and diagnose …
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Trauma Does Not Always Look Like Trauma
We tend to imagine trauma as someone crying when they remember something terrible. Sometimes it looks nothing like that. Sometimes trauma looks like anger. Sometimes it looks like working constantly …