Discouragement is part of the battle. It always has been. But defeatist language can become dangerous when it stops people from seeking help, making plans, or naming what they truly…
Have you ever had a feeling about someone and talked yourself out of it? Not because nothing happened. But because you could not explain it cleanly yet. Maybe they were…
Congressman John Lewis was beaten while fighting for voting rights. On March 7, 1965, during the Selma voting rights march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Alabama state troopers attacked peaceful marchers. That…
updated from June 28, 2024 Listen to this blog post here There are moments when listening is not polite or optional. Listening can save a…
Child marriage is often mistakenly viewed as an issue exclusive to the Global South, but it persists significantly across the West, including the United States and Europe. In the U.S.,…
When people express pain, shock, and grief; your confusion is not an emergency. And it is not more urgent than a woman’s grief. What we are witnessing, again, is how…
Black women are not “overreacting”—we are responding to what our bodies have been forced to carry for generations. The pressure to ignore racism, to stay composed, to be endlessly strong…
From WE Survive Abuse Podcast They will celebrate you as long as you are palatable.As long as your strength entertains them.As long as your truth doesn’t disrupt anything. But…
updated from June 9 2025 Weaponized HypotheticalsDefinition: When people—often men—create imagined stories about a woman’s love life (“She probably dates losers”) to mock, shame, or discredit her for making her…
So we have reached the place where the n-word is actually Black American people’s fault. And that is part of the cycle of harm. Evading accountability. The concept of “the…