Category: Civil Rights & Social Justice

Stay Woke: When a Warning is Turned to a Punchline
Watching language warning about life or death flatten into [...]

Stop Calling It “Race Baiting”: Black Maternal Death Is a Life-or-Death Reality (podcast episode)
Black women speaking about maternal death are not “race baitin [...]

19 James Baldwin Truths and Affirmations That Still Strengthen the Human Spirit (on audio)
Latest episode of WESurviveAbusePodcast.com
19 James Baldwin Trut [...]

For Some People, Staying Grounded in Reality Is a Daily Act of Strength
For Some People, Staying Grounded in Reality Is a Daily Act of Strengt [...]

When “Nothing Will Happen” Isn’t a Safety Plan: Asking About Real Safeguards
“If your confidence turns out to be misplaced, what protections exist [...]

Hope v Clarity: How Discernment Protects Women’s Safety
Safety often begins when a woman trusts what she sees instead of what [...]

Misogyny Is Not a Virtue: When Harmful Attitudes Are Framed as “Values”
"Equality and kindness" do not require or justify
the abolition of w [...]

Surviving Abuse Daily: Vintage Sexist Ads
updated from June 24, 2022
A Grounding Perspective
Looking back visu [...]

On WESurviveAbuse Book Shelf: At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance- A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power (10 min audio)
Title: At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, [...]

Truth Shouldn’t Require a Protest: Journalism, Institutions, and the 12 Events That Changed History
Truth telling is not a luxury.
It is not a reward.
It is the baselin [...]