Civil Rights & Social Justice

1. We Are Often the First to Speak Up—and the Last to Be Protected Black women are frequently the ones raising the alarm about injustice. Yet when it comes time …

    Stop Blaming Girls. Start Naming the Truth. Let’s be honest. The phrase “fatherless girls” is too often thrown around to explain why girls are preyed upon, hypersexualized, or …

updated August 2025 Every day, people step into rideshare vehicles hoping to get from point A to point B. But some never make it there safely. Ride hail assault is …

You think you’re doing the right thing.Being nice.Being kind.Being patient.Taking the high road….just like you were taught. But when you’re dealing with a manipulator, what you think is kindness…they see …

Let’s imagine this. All the girls in the world are sitting around a big table.They’re laughing, learning, growing—but they’re also talking about the times they’ve been treated badly just for …

Women are expected to absorb disrespect quietly, so systems can keep running smoothly. When men harm, women are often told to forgive, fix, or forget—for the sake of peace. Society …

When the hands that claim to help you are the ones tightening the grip. Not all abuse comes from partners.Sometimes, it comes from systems—the courtroom, the school, the hospital, the …

Some of us are trying to bloom in gardens that were never planted for us. We show up with our hands full—bandages, truth-telling, receipts, prayers, statistics, candles, casseroles, court cases, …

Let’s talk about something that happens all too often—especially to women, especially to Survivors. Someone insults us.Mocks us.Lies about us.Disrespects our identity, our womanhood, our power, our pain. And then—days, …