Body safety

“There is no screening process for the males who are allowed into women’s spaces. That silence is the policy.” 🌾 1. The Hidden Reality Across gyms, shelters, restrooms, hospitals, and …

Survivor advocacy has always required naming what endangers women and children — even when it’s unpopular. This isn’t the kind of work that earns applause or bright lights. In more …

Don’t fall for it. Promise yourself that you will not fall for it. Don’t fall for the guilt traps, the twisting of truth, the smooth talk that tells you you’re …

We are not what ignorance calls us. We are not who ignorance says we are. And we no longer owe our silence in exchange for phony belonging. Women are shedding …

There’s a reason children learn the alphabet through songs. There’s a reason faith traditions chant. There’s a reason we remember “I have a dream.” Our brains are built to believe …

Some of us were raised in rooms where silence was survival. Where love came with conditions, and peace was always paid for in self-abandonment. We learned to read moods like …

When children are trapped in abusive homes, they’re not just harmed by the acts themselves. They’re trained through language. Words become cages. The same phrases that should nurture them are …

Words That Tried to Tame Women For generations, women have been shamed into labor — emotional, physical, spiritual — through language that sounds ordinary but carries violence underneath. These words …

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism. Shirley Chisholm   From the earliest movements for freedom, Black women have never …

Karla Brada Mendez thought that she was getting a second chance on life when she started going to AA meetings. But instead she met Eric Allen Earle, an AA old-timer …