Abuse

Somewhere along the way, somebody got bold enough to say it out loud:“That makes me uncomfortable.” She said it gently at first.A whisper in the locker room.A pause in the …

Across campuses, colleges have a duty: to protect all students. That includes the right to privacy, safety, and dignity—especially for young women participating in athletics. At the University of Pennsylvania, …

Some folks are upset nowabout the phrase:“I don’t owe you.” Around here, we are retiring the phrase. But not because people do not like it,  but because we have so …

They asked you to speak. Or, it is time and space designed for speaking.  To be honest. To open up. To tell your truth. They asked you to join groups. …

Every time I swallowed the truth, someone else got fed. Fed with power.Fed with protection.Fed with the benefit of the doubt. But it wasn’t me. 🗣️ Silence Is Not Neutral …

I need to speak to you plain today. There comes a time in healing when you must take a long, hard look around you and ask:Who benefits from my silence? …

When someone stays silent about abuse, overlooks harm, or rewrites the story to sound softer than it was—it’s easy for outsiders to say: “Why didn’t you leave?” “How could you …

Some harms don’t happen in isolation. They happen because someone was let in who shouldn’t have been.And then, no one shut the door behind them. In law and policy, this …

He Did the Harm. They Held the Door. Sometimes it’s not just the person who hurts you. It’s the people who stay quiet. It’s the family who says,“Don’t bring that …

When most people hear the word grooming, they imagine a single predator targeting a person—saying the right things, isolating them, offering gifts, breaking down their resistance. But there’s another form …