Advocates/Activists

The crisis of child predators isn’t going anywhere. Unless the adults change our harmful ways and change them right away. Because the pressure has always been placed especially on female …

We need less focus on aesthetics—less chatter about who’s worn braids, who’s styled locs, and who can trace it back to their culture. That conversation is convenient.Safe.Detached. It’s a neat …

Black American women do not own braids. Braids have lived on many heads across many cultures for centuries.But when it comes to who fought to wear them freely in America—we did. …

Some of us are trying to bloom in gardens that were never planted for us. We show up with our hands full—bandages, truth-telling, receipts, prayers, statistics, candles, casseroles, court cases, …

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. …

Do you see all this debate over “women’s spaces” and NONE over men’s spaces? There’s a line from a 1976 film that still echoes today: “I’m as mad as hell, …

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 …

Some people are confused.Some were misinformed.Some are using half-truths to guilt others into giving up spaces that were built for survival. So let’s slow down, breathe, and make this plain—for …

Let’s be real. There is a difference between asking someone to care and asking someone to give themselves away. What we are seeing—too often, and too boldly—is weaponized empathy. A …

Self-abandonment is one of the most overlooked consequences of surviving abuse, harassment, or assault.It’s what happens when you learn—often in order to survive (poverty, abuse, violence, racism, sexism, misogyny, disability)—that …