Abuse by Older Children

Long before anybody could type a sentence into a machine and receive a realistic image seconds later, women and children already knew about grooming. Survivors knew about secrecy. Manipulation. Sexual …

updated from March 24 2025   Interesting fact: Before his murders were discovered, serial killer Ted Bundy volunteered at a suicide crisis hotline in Seattle called the Seattle Crisis Clinic in 1971. The …

Tell me who I have to be to gain some reciprocity…. Ms. Lauryn Hill As kids, we used to complain about the guy who pulled our braids. The beads fell …

  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 …

The Trap in Toxic Relationships and Systems “Fine. I will do it myself.” Ancient Black women’s proverb.   At first, she thought the problem was the broken thing. The leaking …

When a child is sexually abused, too much of the truth gets twisted by more vocal and crafty adults.  And children and those who are now adults struggle with whether …

updated from December 11 2025 Myth: Straight men are the only danger to women. **Shayla told me about the male relative she grew up with who was a danger to …

We don’t do any of ourselves any favors when we believe that coercion, abuse, and loss of rights happen to “stupid or weak people”. People in abusive relationships rarely wake …

Let’s stop dancing around what everybody can feel but few want to say: Men are not suffering because women won’t let them cry.They are suffering because other men will not …

There are men who prey on men. Go ahead and get the gasp out of the way. Because this seems to be a truth everybody sees but is afraid to …