Abuse of Power

There is wisdom in women noticing when something is changing before everyone else is willing to name it. There is something deeply wrong when women are expected to adjust themselves …

Let’s talk about the girls no one gives any energy to. Protecting women does not require fearing men. It requires refusing to make women responsible for managing dangerous ones. Feminism …

Beautiful Brazil. A country that, like many others, has a long way to go when it comes to how it treats the women and girls who are its citizens.  Women …

This is one of the hardest conversations we rarely have. Violence is not sustained by physically violent men alone. It isn’t sustained by escalating and physically violent men alone. It …

Red flags aren’t just about individual people’s behavior. They are about systemic neglect, officials and leaders ignoring the community’s needs, systems demanding silence in the face of heightened danger, and …

updated from April 21, 2026 Her Fear Is Not Yours to Edit The women and children whom society listens to the least suffer the most intense, torturous, and excruciating harm. …

For a short season, my home state had a WNBA team, and I got to go and see a few games up close with my siblings. I was in my …

Women have historically organized around power differently. Again and again, women have sought power to create refuge rather than conquest, safety rather than supremacy, opportunity rather than control. This is …

We talk about domestic and sexual violence with so much more ease now-not enough but we are not who we used to be- it is easy to forget the road …

One of the reasons I started this blog in the early 2000s was because of something I kept seeing after serving in many different roles within the movement to end …