Category: Abuse of Power

When Someone Refuses to Leave You Alone: Understanding Forced Access
When Someone Refuses to Respect Distance
It's one thing to ta [...]

A Slap to the Ear Is Not “Just a Slap”: What Survivors Need to Know About Ear Injuries, Concussion Symptoms, and Strangulation
Some injuries announce themselves wi [...]

Lucy Diggs Slowe: She Protected Us in Silence So We Could One Day Speak
“Because boundaried spaces don’t build themselves—someone has [...]

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 [...]

Walking on Eggshells: Recognizing Peer-Driven Control Before It Burns You Out
People tend to move on and forget the people we lost d [...]

Grief That Echoes: Honoring the Women Amiri Baraka Lost to Violence
There are wounds that don’t stop bleeding just because the [...]

15 Ways Oppression Keeps Control Over Women, Even After Women Make Progress
It changes its name.It stops saying, “Control women,” [...]

This Is No Time for a Victory Lap: 35 Modern Dangers Women Are Still Being Pushed to Tolerate
Remember that race where the person winning started ce [...]

The Fable of the Man Who Changed His Coat Not His Character: How Harm Reinvents Itself
Some people do not grow, evolve, and change. They [...]

Why Black Women Stay So Careful When We Are in Distress
It shattered me that as Cherrie Moore was being punched in [...]