Civil Rights & Social Justice

“Equality and kindness” do not require or justify the abolition of women as a sex class or the abrogation/appropriation of women’s rights to private spaces, sports teams, etc. On the …

updated from June 24, 2022 A Grounding Perspective Looking back visually can feel startling because images bypass intellectual defenses. They speak directly to memory. What once blended into the background …

  Title: 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 …

Updated from January 28, 2024 Black History Month is not a highlight reel. It is a living inheritance. A remembering of courage carried quietly, brilliance cultivated against the odds, and …

 updated from 2/2/ 2025   Without Black women, the miracles of  Black history would not be possible.      So much of who I am, I owe to the women …

Like every abused woman and child Black Americans reside in a county that pushes us to “move on“,  “get over it“, and “forgive and forget“. Heavy emphasis on the forget. …

It is harder to ignore now. Some people noticed it earlier but now it is getting harder to ignore isn’t it? Across cultures, languages, and generations, many Survivors are naming …

Updated from June 3, 2025 Speaking of a harmed woman’s word is never good enough…….. We WILL NOT be forgetting this. We human beings are a flawed bunch and we …

We arrived here because too many people rush to shield their favorite men instead of listening to the harmed. We can stop. Right now. We arrived here because discomfort feels …

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns …