Let’s talk about something that far too often stays in the shadows: Abusers know what they’re doing.And many of them actively seek out people they believe are easier to manipulate, …
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When Safety Isn’t Simple: How Domestic Violence Hits Differently for People with Neurodivergence
Tonya GJ Prince | We Survive Abuse There’s something the world needs to say out loud more often: Safety isn’t a one-size-fits-all journey. Especially not for people who experience …
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Inclusion Should Never Cost Girls Their Safety
April is child abuse awareness month. When politicians twist the language of “inclusion” to force girls to surrender their safe spaces, they are not being progressive—they are being predatory. What …
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Why Women Can’t Override Another Woman’s “No” Using Gender as a Justification
No woman—no matter how wise, how wounded, how experienced, or how loud—has the right to override another woman’s boundaries. Not now. Not ever.Being female is not a permission slip to …
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🛑 Tokenism Is Not Liberation: Why Hate Groups Tokenize Black Women
Some groups want our rhythm, our language, our beauty—but not our justice. They say they care about Black women. They post our photos.Quote our heroes.Find one or two of us …
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Calling Out the Undermining of Women and Children’s Rights
“We are living in times so strange that truth sounds like conspiracy, and kindness feels like rebellion.”— Unknown Jonah Wheeler has been lectured and scolded about Jim Crow by a …
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✊🏾 First, We Fight for Our Safety.
Then, We Fight for Our Story.(And We Are Tired.) She survived.That should be enough.But it never is. Because first, women have to fight for our safety.And then—if we’re lucky enough …
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Some Truths We’re Not Supposed to Say Out Loud- But We Will
We see you.Not with malice.Not with envy.But with ancient knowing. We know when something in the milk ain’t cleanWe know when a movement carries rot at the root. I’ve been …
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We Told You.
We told you.We warned you.We begged you to listen. We tried to explain what was coming down the road.We cried out when the signs were subtle, when the red flags …
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“They’ll Be Raped Anyway” Is Not a Strategy—It’s Cowardly a Surrender
Some people are not “foxhole” people. They surrender mid-battle. You say,“Well, women will be raped anyway…”as if that justifies handing predators the keysto every room we bled to build. You …