Abuse

updated from March 11 2025 We can respect individuals while remaining honest about patterns. Those two things are not enemies. We cannot fix what we refuse to face. And when …

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 …

Survivor Affirmation I honor my own no. I honor yours too. Real love does not ask me to abandon either one. There is something sacred in this — a person’s …

updated from February 6, 2025 Survivor Affirmation Your boundaries are sacred. Nobody’s crisis, real or threatened, gets to override your right to protect your own life.         …

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. …

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 …

This is a tragic ending to a beautiful and bright light that challenges a lot of myths about domestic violence only occurring in relationships where the woman is lacking in …

You have chosen to lie  for a man you respect.   I have chosen to tell the truth  for all the women I’ve never met.   ~Aja the Poet updated …

For generations, women endured violence that society treated as a private problem. This is the story of how finding the right words changed law, culture, and countless lives. Before It …