Category: Abuse of Power

Please Stop Telling Survivors, “Men Wouldn’t Go That Far.” History Says Otherwise.
updated from March 24 2025 For years, Survivors have been told: [...]

Women Healing Among One Another is Not Hate (audio short)
Can human rights organizations protect multiple groups without asking [...]

How a Network of Black Women Educators Secretly Organized a Revolution
Who Were the Women of the WPC?
Founded in Montgomery in 1946 by Mary [...]

The Missing Skill in Violence Prevention: Contextual Intelligence
When leaders simplify complex human lives to make policy easier, the [...]

Why Dismissing Boundaries Around the “N-Word” is a Form of Cultural Gaslighting
Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers' sons, becomes as import [...]

Georgia Gilmore: How Black Women Outsmarted Jim Crow with Fish Frys
Fine. I will do it myself. -Black women's proverb
Black women despise [...]

Survivor Mary Lumpkin: The Woman Who Turned a Place of Pain Into a Place of Promise
Before history knew her as a symbol, Mary Lumpkin was a w [...]

The World Has Studied Women’s Reactions More Than Men’s Actions
The people carrying the pain and the burdens are often the people le [...]

The Architecture of False Safety: 7 Red Flags
We have got to stop treating the violent crossing of human bou [...]

Lawrence on the lesson of the Platner campaign: Always wait for the vetting
We must have wisdom in our voting and political proc [...]