Category: Black Women

Why Some Voices Are Punished for Asking the Right Questions-Even By Fellow Women
Updated from June 3, 2025
Speaking of a harmed woman's word is neve [...]

10 Reasons Why “Not This Person” Fails Women Every Time
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruct [...]

Beyond the Theory: Why We Still Need Audre Lorde, Our Warrior Poet
There are moments that reveal to you exactly who you are and why you b [...]

When Survival Is Mistaken for Consent: Black Women, Weaponized Ignorance, and the Right to Refuse
It is not normal for people to know little to nothing about you—and st [...]

When History Is Weaponized: Seeing the Manipulation Clearly, Even on the Hard Days
A reminder that “slavery is white history, how we survived it is Black [...]

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 [...]

They Love What We Give, Not Who We Are: The Quiet Erasure of Women’s Inner Lives
When we say, “He objectified her,” we make it sound like mere casual d [...]

50 Times We Walked Past You—Our Hair Not to Your Liking, But We Were Dying Inside
updated March 27, 2025
You saw our hair.
Not our fear.Not ou [...]

The Blurry Woman: How Society “Forgets” the Definition the Moment We Ask for Rights
When she is a target for control or harm.
Forced Sterilization (The G [...]

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 [...]