Abuse of Power

  There are stories we rarely let breathe. The stories of Black men who were once Black boys — hurt, silenced, told to “man up,” told that pain was weakness, …

We are not what ignorance calls us. We are not who ignorance says we are. And we no longer owe our silence in exchange for phony belonging. Women are shedding …

Some of us were raised in rooms where silence was survival. Where love came with conditions, and peace was always paid for in self-abandonment. We learned to read moods like …

When children are trapped in abusive homes, they’re not just harmed by the acts themselves. They’re trained through language. Words become cages. The same phrases that should nurture them are …

Words That Tried to Tame Women For generations, women have been shamed into labor — emotional, physical, spiritual — through language that sounds ordinary but carries violence underneath. These words …

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism. Shirley Chisholm   From the earliest movements for freedom, Black women have never …

In South Africa, a woman built an AI “Aunt” — a digital guide designed to support women facing violence. It’s a beautiful innovation born from heartbreak. And it tells a …

Karla Brada Mendez thought that she was getting a second chance on life when she started going to AA meetings. But instead she met Eric Allen Earle, an AA old-timer …

She called me because I was serving as her victim advocate: His family is mad at me and now I’m so confused. “He is trying to change but sometimes he …

“If his change requires your suffering to prove it, it isn’t change — it’s another performance.” — WeSurviveAbuse.com Somehow, we allowed ourselves to believe that when a man says he’s …