Child Abuse

Another book from my personal shelf… Some books stay with you long after you’ve finished reading them. Bastard Out of Carolina (1992) is one of those books. But I want …

The crime was the perpetrator’s choice, not the victim’s failure to behave perfectly. There is something deeply troubling about the way we expect women and girls to behave after sexual …

What happens when a generation of girls is expected to learn alongside boys who are being taught to regard them as lesser human beings? What female teachers are describing deserves …

Melba Wilson wrote about something that Black women had certainly been living but had rarely been given room to discuss publicly: incest and childhood sexual abuse inside Black families. Crossing …

I did not arrive at female boundaries because I assumed every male was dangerous. I arrived there because I knew what society does to women and girls when the dangerous …

“History, despite Its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, But if faced with courage, Need not be lived again.” —Maya Angelou “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” was the #3 …

updated from January 2026 I’ve served the women who responded to violence and were facing harsher punishment than any man would have for the same crime. No one was willing …

Well, actually…they’ve been asking for help for awhile. At some point we as a global family can deal with why their cries have gone unheard, including the fact that larger …

updated from March 24 2025   Interesting fact: Before his murders were discovered, serial killer Ted Bundy volunteered at a suicide crisis hotline in Seattle called the Seattle Crisis Clinic in 1971. The …

Some women are granted complexity after tragedy. Others are handed a number, a sentence, and a locked door Something haunting about the story of Deasia Watkins has very little to …