Category: Advocates/Activists
đ© Red Flags: When âAlliesâ Are Really Just Bullies
In advocacy, passion often draws people inâit can light up a room, sti [...]
Beliefs vs. Facts: A Roadblock to Womenâs Rights
Belief vs. Fact â Whatâs the Difference?
1. What is a Belief?
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âThe Forgive and Overlook Habitâ: Why the Crisis of Child Predators Isnât Going Anywhere
The crisis of child predators isnât going anywhere. Unless the adults [...]
Braids, Locs, and the Right to Be: The Truth About Black Hair Discrimination
We need less focus on aestheticsâless chatter about whoâs worn braids, [...]
We Carried the Battle. Don’t Rewrite the War.
Black American women do not own braids. Braids have lived on many he [...]
You Donât Have to Stay Where Youâre Not Safe
Some of us are trying to bloom in gardens that were never planted for [...]
When Healing Language Gets Mocked: Gaslighting by Cultural Delegitimization
They asked you to speak. Or, it is time and space designed for speak [...]
Why Womenâs Rights Vary by Stateâand Menâs Donât: A Breakdown of Legal Inequality in America
Do you see all this debate over "women's spaces" and none over [...]
Cultural Complicity: The Silence That Hurts More Than the First Harm
He Did the Harm. They Held the Door.
Sometimes itâs not just the pers [...]
Jim Crow Was About Stripping Boundaries-Not Setting Them
Someone is telling on themselves.......In Jim Crow America, Bl [...]
Letâs Make It Plain: Jim Crow and Sex-Based Boundaries Are Not the Same Thing
Some people are confused.Some were misinformed.Some are using half-tru [...]
Weaponized Empathy Is Not Solidarity. Itâs Coercion.
Letâs be real. There is a difference between asking someone to care an [...]
Self-Abandonment: How Survivors Can Come Home to Themselves
Self-abandonment is one of the most overlooked consequences of survivi [...]
Donât Be Tricked Into Serving What Would Never Save You
Avoid letting any manâno matter how soft his tone, poetic his struggle [...]
Juneteenth: Proof That Even Our Freedom Is Seen as âToo Much
Juneteenth is not just a holiday. It is a mirrorâreflecting how this [...]
Gaslighting on a National Scale: Why Treating Black Women Like a Burden Is Abuse, Not Oversight
Donât Call It a Favor
The nerveâthe absolute gallâto act like you're [...]
What History Taught Us About Joining Hands Too Quickly
The phrase âwe should all fight together because we are all minoriti [...]
đ 12 Reasons âShe Shouldâve Known Betterâ Does Nothing to Keep Women Safe
Weâve heard it too many times:âShe made a bad choice [...]
Coercive Sex Trafficking: What People Donât Understand
That line is more fragile than people think.
Too many people in the [...]
Diversity Is Not the MagicâThe Work Is
We donât automatically grow just because weâre more diverse.đ± Divers [...]
