Civil Rights & Social Justice

Every woman has the right to make her own choices. Full stop.She doesn’t need approval, permission, or public debate. 💜 Her personal choices are hers alone: Her hairstyle or how …

“When a woman goes hungry, more than her body suffers — her dignity, her power, her future are all at risk. Food justice is more than feeding; it’s freeing.” Women …

We talk about boundaries so often here because for women—especially Survivors—boundary setting is not just a life skill. It’s liberation. For centuries, laws, customs, and traditions were built to erase …

There is a special kind of pain that comes when the place you turned to for help becomes the source of another wound.That is institutional betrayal — when a system, …

This is what we mean when we say, “poverty is intentional.” A Michigan woman, Talia C. Teneyuque, is reportedly charged with food stamp fraud. She allegedly used her Bridge Card …

People may mean well. But to insist that women fighting for justice — especially women working to protect other women — must also abandon faith, spirit, or prayer?That’s not progress.That’s …

They’ll tell you that you can’t be a woman of faith and a feminist. That believing in God somehow means you must stay silent, small, or submissive.That faith and feminism …

Jim Crow and the Erasure of Black Womanhood In the era of Jim Crow, Black women were denied full personhood. Their bodies were brutalized. Their cries were ignored. Laws designed …

When scandals break — like the recent Young Republicans (ages 18-40 including many influential professionals) chat leak — the pattern is familiar. The men are called out. The men are …

Somewhere along the way, the right of men—especially Black men—to say no got tangled up in our cultural discomfort with seeing men as fully human. When Prince said no to …