Category: Advocates/Activists

“Not This Person” Is Old Reputation Management — And We’ve Fought This Before
Domestic violence advocates have been here before.
For [...]

Why Saying ‘Not This Person’ Endangers Children More Than It Protects Truth
Enough! Enough rushing to protect your favorite men. Isn't that how we [...]

Telling the Truth Is Not Blame: Responsibility, Survival, and Complicity in a World That Harms Women
“America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure ju [...]

Not Everyone Who Speaks the Language of Protection is Protecting the Same People
We love movies like 'Avengers' when beings from different walks of lif [...]

From Michael Harriot: How a City Ignored the (Systemic) Rape, Murder and Terrorism of Black Women for Four Decades
updated from December 4, 2024 "Not everything that is faced can be [...]

I’m Tired of Watching Women Pay the Price While Everyone Else Argues About Words
We cannot keep living in a world where every tool meant to prote [...]

Why Some Black Mothers Choose the Father’s Last Name
One of the reasons that I am not a feminist is because it does not mak [...]

When Power and Control Speaks, It Uses the Same Language
"I get to treat you horribly because I have decided that you are less [...]

The Performance of Ignorance: How Men Pretend Sexual Violence Is News.
There is a peculiar kind of amnesia that grips men whenever the subjec [...]

Manhood Won’t Shatter If We Tell the Truth
There are men who prey on men. Go ahead and get the gasp out of the wa [...]