Body safety

  When men debate whether women deserve safety, they are not having a conversation. They are auditioning for authority over women’s boundaries. The year is 2026. Violence against women is …

Some people do not attack women’s boundaries directly. They fog them. They turn a woman’s “no” into a debate. They turn her caution into “overreacting.” They turn her discomfort into …

updated from August 7 2025 Remember now, plenty of wives and children around the world are very nice to men who think nothing of harming them in an instant. As …

updated from March 28, 2025 This is so cruel. There’s a new talking point going around:That not allowing boys to compete against girls in sports is somehow the same as …

Truth telling is not a luxury. It is not a reward. It is the baseline responsibility of news organizations, public officials, and law enforcement. Communities should not have to march, …

Someone is telling on themselves……. In Jim Crow America, Black people—especially Black women and girls—were forbidden from having boundaries: A Black woman couldn’t say no to a white man’s advances …

updated from June 22, 2025 Nina Simone’s song, “Four Women,” is powerful because each woman has been made into someone else’s story. Aunt Sarah is expected to carry pain. Saffronia …

I was astonished that in a season where we had a string of Black femicides and people were asserting “bidirectional violence” on dead women that they didn’t know. Only she …

DARVO is a pattern some harmful people use when they are confronted. It stands for: DenyThey deny what happened. AttackThey attack the person who spoke up. Reverse Victim and OffenderThey …

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 …