I don’t think people understand that working in a women’s shelter means keeping others, including children, safe. There is a woman in Alaska named Sherrie Laurie whose story deserves more…
Emotional abuse can be difficult to explain in a society that struggles to respect women’s safety boundaries in the first place. So much of emotional abuse involves someone knowing what…
A woman does not become hateful because she refuses to believe what someone else believes. Her mind is not public property, and her agreement is not a debt she owes.…
I did not arrive at female boundaries because I assumed every male was dangerous. I arrived there because I knew what society does to women and girls when the dangerous…
Try not to measure an older woman’s courage by doors that had not been built yet. In 1968, *Lorraine is twenty-five years old with two little children and a husband…
Can you imagine being pressured to center males in work for women and girls in a world where there is still girl-child marriage? Little girls can’t identify out of that.…
What does political resistance look like when the movement that might have named your experience does not yet exist? What happens when you live a political identity before there is…
updated from March 24 2025 Interesting fact: Before his murders were discovered, serial killer Ted Bundy volunteered at a suicide crisis hotline in Seattle called the Seattle Crisis Clinic in 1971. The…
Long before many people had language for what we now call ‘Black feminism’, a Black woman from Martinique was sitting in France thinking about Black women, race, culture, belonging and…
updated from April 8 2025 Some lies don’t look like lies.They wear the clothing of “tradition,” “culture,” “love,” or “femininity.”But if you look closer, you’ll see the bruises they…