Body safety

  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, …

It was just past midnight on a Sunday in May 2003 when fifteen-year-old Sakia Gunn stood at a Newark bus corner, laughing with her friends. She was coming back from …

There are wounds that don’t stop bleeding just because the headlines fade.There are names that deserve to be spoken with reverence—not only in tragedy, but in truth. We know Amiri …

   Make your own choices. Live your own life. But when women see patterns through other women’s lives, our eyesight becomes so much clearer. THAT is why our voices, our …

  Some people do not grow, evolve, and change. They rebrand. In this episode of the We Survive Abuse Podcast, Tonya GJ Prince explores a familiar pattern in abuse, sexism, …

It shattered me that as Cherrie Moore was being punched in the face by a maniacal madman police officer, she was trying to reassure and comfort the maniacal madman police …