When a man kills three women over his lifetime, the system did not just fail once. It failed over and over. It was designed this way. Not all men will …
Tonya GJ Prince
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Violence Against WomenBody safetyBoundariesCivil Rights & Social JusticeFemicideVictims RightsViolationviolenceWomenWomen's Rights
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Disability and Chronic IllnessFemale Civil RightsFemale HealthFemale Health and Safetyfemale health civil rightsFemale SafetyFeminism/WomanismHistory/HerstoryHuman TraffickingManipulationMental healthMental Wellness and HealingMental Wellness and HealthPowerRelationshipsSafe Boundaried SpacesSafeguardingSafetySelf careSelf LoveSurvivor SpotlightViolationViolence Against WomenWomanism/FeminismWomenWomen's Rights
How People Prompt or Lure Women to Prove Their Worth
“Why doesn’t she leave? Why did she go back?” We don’t spend a lot of time examining what makes women doubt themselves. I look forward to the days when we …
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Celebrity/FameMusic
How Vanessa Williams Overcame Bias and Industry Backlash to Reinvent Herself—and Win Anyway
This is how you do it! It was 1984. Vanessa Williams was surrounded on all sides. Some people were angry when she won Ms. America including some prominent members of …
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Abuse of PowerBlack WomenBody safetyBoundariesCampus violenceCivil Rights & Social JusticeFemale Health and Safetyfemale health civil rightsHerstory/HistoryJustice is Authentic LoveLGBSafe Boundaried SpacesSafeguardingSafetySelf careSelf LoveSelf WorthTRUTHViolationViolence Against WomenWomanism/FeminismWomen's Rights
Lucy Diggs Slowe: She Protected Us in Silence So We Could One Day Speak
“Because boundaried spaces don’t build themselves—someone has to brave the silence first.”[WeSurviveAbuse.com] Most people will tell you Lucy Diggs Slowe was a tennis champion.That she was the first Dean of …
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Using Michelle Obama’s Image to Justify White Supremacy Is a Self-Own—And a Betrayal
If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others. -Michelle Obama (Why Black women must speak for ourselves, gatekeep our image, …
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Why Moral Clarity Still Matters: Remembering the Victims of Jeffrey Dahmer
Connecting with political allies is harder than people admit—especially when your foundation is not hate, not outrage for sport, but a clear, grounded sense of humanity. Because you start to …
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LGBBlack femicideBody safetyBoundarieschild safetyCivil Rights & Social JusticeFemale Health and Safetyfemale health civil rightsFemicideGirlsHerstory/HistoryTeensViolationViolence Against Women
The Murder of Sakia Gunn: Why the World Looked Away, and Why Her Community Refused to Forget
It was just past midnight on a Sunday in May 2003 when fifteen-year-old Sakia Gunn stood at a Newark bus corner, laughing with her friends. She was coming back from …
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DECEPTIONAbuseAbuse by Older ChildrenAbuse of PowerHerstory/HistoryManipulationMental Wellness and Healing
Walking on Eggshells: Recognizing Peer-Driven Control Before It Burns You Out
People tend to move on and forget the people we lost during the seasons when deception and manipulation reigned…… So many, too many Survivors have been hurt in these …
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Grief That Echoes: Honoring the Women Amiri Baraka Lost to Violence
There are wounds that don’t stop bleeding just because the headlines fade.There are names that deserve to be spoken with reverence—not only in tragedy, but in truth. We know Amiri …
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E. Lynn Harris: The Visionary Black Author Who Gave Us Stories We’d Never Seen—But Always Needed
Long before mainstream platforms embraced diverse stories, he was doing the work. Out of the trunk of his car. In beauty salons. With Black women as his first and fiercest …