Category: Body safety

Lucy Diggs Slowe: She Protected Us in Silence So We Could One Day Speak
“Because boundaried spaces don’t build themselves—someone has [...]

Using Michelle Obama’s Image to Justify White Supremacy Is a Self-Own—And a Betrayal
If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll [...]

The Murder of Sakia Gunn: Why the World Looked Away, and Why Her Community Refused to Forget
It was just past midnight on a Sunday in May 2003 when fifteen [...]

Grief That Echoes: Honoring the Women Amiri Baraka Lost to Violence
There are wounds that don’t stop bleeding just because the [...]

We Are Not Trespassing: Black Disability and the Right to Simply Live
We Are Not Trespassing. We Are Living.
There is a kind of [...]

12 Similarities Between Josephine Baker and Megan Thee Stallion
Make your own choices. Live your own life. But w [...]

The Fable of the Man Who Changed His Coat Not His Character: How Harm Reinvents Itself
Some people do not grow, evolve, and change. They [...]

Why Black Women Stay So Careful When We Are in Distress
It shattered me that as Cherrie Moore was being punched in [...]

Stop Debating Women Into Danger: Saying You Care Is Not the Same as Protecting Women
When men debate whether women deserve safety, they a [...]

Boundary Blur Bingo: The Games People Play with Women’s Safety
Some people do not attack women’s boundaries directly.
They f [...]