Abuse of Power

updated from January 2026 I’ve served the women who responded to violence and were facing harsher punishment than any man would have for the same crime. No one was willing …

  There is something missing from a great deal of our modern conversation about men, women, loneliness, relationships, and belonging. We rarely acknowledge just how much access to women’s presence …

updated from September 26 2025 Abusers call what they do to women and children by many names. They dress it up with lies, excuses, and false respectability. They label it …

When we talk about stereotypes about women, sometimes we make them sound much more complicated than they are. Many are painfully ordinary. Women should be nice. Women should share. Women …

A stereotype is somebody else’s story about women. It should never outrank the truth of women’s lives. At a time when we are talking so much about myths and stereotypes …

We Celebrated Women’s Gains. We Also Need to Talk About What Is Being Eroded. There is a story we often tell about women’s progress. Women organized, laws changed, rape became …

✦ by WeSurviveAbuse.com updated from May 24 2025 We’re taught to look for bruises, raised voices, or slammed doors.But the most dangerous form of abuse often starts quietly—with language. It …

Consent is not only the right to say yes. It is the freedom to say no without punishment, persuasion, or a campaign to change your mind. Consent is not only …

  updated from March 23 2025 There is a familiar pattern in history. Women organize. Women speak. Women document harm. Women build shelters, create opportunities, change laws, and fight for …

There is a conversation we need to have about loneliness, dating, sex, companionship and rejection. A grown one. Because loneliness is real. Wanting love is real. Wanting somebody to come …