The first step in controlling a person is often convincing them they cannot trust what they know. Violence prevention begins long before violence. It begins with protecting people’s right to …
Tonya GJ Prince
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American Violet and the Fight to Remain the Expert on Your Own Life
Control rarely begins with chains. It often begins with convincing people that their own eyes, ears, memory, and judgment cannot be trusted. History is filled with people who were …
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⭐ Why I Resist Diluted Language Like “Birthing People” Part 1
Updated from November 2025 How hard is it to just say “mothers and…..?” In 2024, Black women had a maternal mortality rate of 44.8 deaths per 100,000 live …
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Every Solution Was Rejected Because Access Was the Goal: Understanding Forced Access, Coercion, and Why So Many Women Feel Pressured to Explain Themselves
A woman asks for safety. Everyone else asks for evidence. 🌿 Sometimes a woman is not asking for much. She is asking for rest. She is asking for privacy. …
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When Someone Refuses to Leave You Alone: Understanding Forced Access
When Someone Refuses to Respect Distance It’s one thing to talk about the need for and importance of boundaries. We need to talk more about what happens when people ignore …
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She Didn’t Need Better Boundaries. She Needed Him to Respect Them.
One of the best docuseries that I have seen about “forced interaction” resulting in prolonged stalking is the Hulu docuseries Stalking Samantha: 13 Years of Terror. Samantha met Christopher Thomas …
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What If We Debated Men’s Bodies the Way We Debate Women’s Bodies?
Let’s try something new. Men’s spaces are often treated as default, protected, and not up for public management in the same way. Women’s spaces get treated like community property: everybody …
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Juneteenth: Proof That Even Our Freedom Is Seen as “Too Much”
Juneteenth is not just a holiday. It is a mirror—reflecting how this nation has long believed that Black people deserve nothing more than scraps. Even when we fight for …
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A Slap to the Ear Is Not “Just a Slap”: What Survivors Need to Know About Ear Injuries, Concussion Symptoms, and Strangulation
Some injuries announce themselves with bruises. Others move in quietly, sit behind the ear, ring through the night, and make a woman wonder if she is “just stressed.” That …
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Juneteenth Reminds Us: Delayed Truth Still Matters (audio)
Freedom has always had an important relationship with truth. On Juneteenth, we remember a painful reality. Freedom had already been declared, yet many Black families remained in chains because the …