Black femicide

When you are a woman—an adult female human being who has overlapping disabilities that all intersect with being a woman—it gets extremely challenging to keep hearing your existence trivialized. I’m …

There is a familiar sentence that appears whenever violence against Black women becomes impossible to ignore: “Black women don’t talk.” Sometimes it is said with concern. Sometimes frustration. Sometimes it …

updated from June 13, 2025 Women and girls in Sudan are facing unspeakable violence—sexual violence used as a weapon of war, mass displacement, and ethnic cleansing. These are not isolated …

updated from June 3 2025 Let’s name this for what it is: When politicians, media figures, or public influencers call women “hateful” for expressing concerns about our safety, they are …

Sometimes history gives us a woman whose life makes the word courage feel too small. María Elena Moyano was born in Lima, Peru, in 1958. She would become an Afro-Peruvian …

Now streaming on Amazon Prime There is something very familiar happening around Is God Is. (The Color Purple? Eve’s Bayou? Is that you?) A Black woman creates a story about violence, …

Risk for harm grows where care is uneven. And for Black women, care has never been evenly given. Healthcare didn’t listen. Domestic violence services do not either. Where are Black …

Because access is not respect. And entitlement is not love. Even when men have the access they want, saying no can still be dangerous. History has shown us a painful …

updated from May 31, 2023   Women and girls do not always survive rape.   Erin Justice was a teen being jointly raised by both of her parents. Erin notified …

  The tragedy of Deanna Cook is a painful, textbook study in how a broken safety net can fail a woman who did everything right. The lawsuit filed by her …