Category: Black Women
✋🏽Men Wanting to Define Womanhood Isn’t New
Throughout history, men who seek to control, abuse, or dominate women [...]
Celebrity Trials, Silencing, and the Spectacle of Misogyny
Let’s talk about what we should be learning from these celebrity cou [...]
The Voices We Don’t Hear Are Still Speaking
In our fast-moving world, where everything from news to justice seems [...]
WE Remember and Uplift the Name of Lynn Eusan
First Black Homecoming Queen at a predominantly white southern [...]
🩸 They’ve Always Watched the Womb: A History of Obsession, Control & Harm w/video featuring Michelle Browder, Mothers of Gynecology
🩸 They’ve Always Watched the Womb: A History of Obsession, Control &am [...]
15 Powerful Lessons Women Can Learn from the Life of Gloria Richardson
Gloria Richardson wasn’t just part of history—sh [...]
Grief That Echoes: Honoring the Women Amiri Baraka Lost to Violence
There are wounds that don’t stop bleeding just because the headlines [...]
🎓💥 Go Anyway. Learn Anyway. Grow Anyway.
This is written in April. Tis the season for those trying to keep othe [...]
🔥 Black Women Didn’t Just Get Here—We Dragged Ourselves Through Fire to Arrive
You may have heard it said:“Black women are the most educated group in [...]
The Truth About External Validation: What It Builds, It Can Destroy
The Queen is the most powerful piece on the chess board.
We all nee [...]
🎬 We’re Not Just Watching the Story—We’re Being Told Who We’re Allowed to Be
At We Survive Abuse, we talk a lot about truth, survival, and the powe [...]
Stop the Ahistorical Comparison: Jim Crow Was Violent, Girls’ Sports Does Not Have To Be
This is so cruel.
There’s a new talking point going around:That not a [...]
50 Times We Walked Past You—Our Hair Not to Your Liking, But We Were Dying Inside
You saw our hair.
Not our fear.Not our exhaustion.Not our grief.Not [...]
10 Ways Faux Concern About Cheek Swabs in Sports Does Not Protect Black Women—It Exploits Us
There’s been a growing outcry that cheek swabs to confirm male and f [...]
No, You’re Not Colorist Just for Disliking a Dark-Skinned Black Woman Artist—But Let’s Talk About How You Express It
Let’s be real for a moment. You are not automatically colorist for dis [...]
🛑 Tokenism Is Not Liberation: Why Hate Groups Tokenize Black Women
Some groups want our rhythm, our language, our beauty—but not our just [...]
🌿 The Truth About Hate Groups & Their Harm to Women and Children
I speak the truth, even when it shakes the room.
My refusal to accept [...]
Transparent Hate: Calling Out the Undermining of Women and Children’s Rights
"We are living in times so strange that truth sounds like conspira [...]
Some Truths We’re Not Supposed to Say Out Loud- But We Will
We see you.Not with malice.Not with envy.But with ancient knowing.
We [...]
Don’t Be Fooled: Giving Away Your Rights Isn’t Liberation
They told you it was clever.Told you it was edgy.Told you it was rev [...]
