Category: Abuse of Power

Fire Test: When You Ask Women to Support Violence
You are sending forth aspiring leaders who have no history of standing [...]

Avoid Praising Harm: How Women Can Break the Cycle of Defending Those Who Do Damage
When women defend harmful behavior, they lose their sense of safety. L [...]

Why Leaders Who Excuse Abuse Can’t Build Safety—They Recreate Harm
When someone dismisses violence, mocks Survivors, or excuses abuse, th [...]

When Women Excuse Violence, Everyone Pays: The High Cost of Ignoring Abuse
In politics, too many women of privilege in America give violent men a [...]

Unbalanced: Society Polices Women and Pardons Men
We still live in a world where people -including women- nitpick women [...]

We Warned You: The Deadly Price Black Women Pay for Social Justice Experiments by The Way She Came
One thing I have learned about life on this planet, people just act [...]

We Don’t Police Each Other—We Challenge Power
Power.That’s the word they fear most when it rises in a Black woman’s [...]

When Leaders Forget Autonomy: A Reminder from Survivors Who’ve Had Enough
For Survivors, who are used to having their autonomy taken or dismisse [...]

Boundaries Are Freedom in Disguise: Reclaiming What History Tried to Take
We talk about boundaries so often here because for women—especially Su [...]

Until Respect for All Includes Respect for Women’s Boundaries
There is no hate here.No hatred of any man, or of how he choos [...]