Tonya GJ Prince

When you are a woman—an adult female human being who has overlapping disabilities that all intersect with being a woman—it gets extremely challenging to keep hearing your existence trivialized. I’m …

If someone can convince you that speaking about mistreatment is worse than the mistreatment itself, they have found a powerful way to protect those responsible. In 2017, when Chimamanda Ngozi …

When insulting women is considered entertainment, but women objecting is considered oversensitivity, the joke has become a lesson in whose dignity is negotiable. Viewers of American television are noticing that …

Swatting a rape Survivor should be treated as a serious criminal offense, with enhanced penalties when the act is intended to intimidate, threaten, or retaliate against her for reporting sexual …

Emotional abuse can be difficult to explain in a society that struggles to respect women’s safety boundaries in the first place. So much of emotional abuse involves someone knowing what …

I heard about this tragedy, and I thought it was the end of the court case….. An appellate court overturned a manslaughter conviction after finding that relevant facts were improperly …

What I love about Octavia Spencer’s production direction of “The Lost Women of Highway 20” is that she intentionally spotlighted all the missed opportunities, when people chose not to listen …

Why women’s refusal, independence, and desire for safety are so often treated as offenses against men. There is something deeply troubling about a man hearing a woman say no and …

When a woman asks for safety, listen to the danger she is describing before you begin searching for something wrong with her character. We absolutely must reflect on how we …

The crime was the perpetrator’s choice, not the victim’s failure to behave perfectly. There is something deeply troubling about the way we expect women and girls to behave after sexual …