Body safety

Much of today’s manipulation no longer looks openly threatening. It often arrives looking compassionate, progressive, emotionally intelligent, romantic, therapeutic, empowering, or inclusive. That doesn’t mean those things are manipulative. It …

So today we are in the state of Washington because their Department of Corrections has interesting policies that impact women. Language control determines which words institutions permit us to use, …

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”- Zora Neale Hurston There comes a point when ‘share everything’ sounds a lot like ‘give …

  updated from July 14 2025 This thing men do. “It’s actually those men that are the real danger.” “No, those are the men you really need to be afraid …

Some of us were never told that we deserved to feel safe.We were told to keep going.To be strong.To not make a scene.To forgive.To forget.To move on. So we did.We …

  Updated from November 2025 How hard is it to just say “mothers and…..?”   In 2024, Black women had a maternal mortality rate of 44.8 deaths per 100,000 live …

Let’s try something new. Men’s spaces are often treated as default, protected, and not up for public management in the same way. Women’s spaces get treated like community property: everybody …

When a man kills three women over his lifetime, the system did not just fail once. It failed over and over. It was designed this way. Not all men will …

“Because boundaried spaces don’t build themselves—someone has to brave the silence first.”[WeSurviveAbuse.com] Most people will tell you Lucy Diggs Slowe was a tennis champion.That she was the first Dean of …

  If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others. -Michelle Obama (Why Black women must speak for ourselves, gatekeep our image, …