Category: Coercion
When Someone Tries to Humiliate You and Take Your Name: Two Abuse Tactics Survivors Should Know (audio ep)
Abuse does not always begin with a bruise. Sometimes it begins with hu [...]
Men Already Have More Access to Women Than Ever. Why Is the Answer Still “Give Men More”?
There is something missing from a great deal of our modern con [...]
When Women Have to Soften the Language of Safety: 10 Ways Policing Women’s Words Can Undermine Sexual-Violence Prevention
And here our country stands examining every uttered word of a woman wh [...]
You CANNOT Call it a Free Choice While Punishing Her “No”
"Nobody is telling you whom you must sleep with.”
“But if you exclude [...]
🚨 Control of Language Is a Red Flag for Abuse—And Many Miss It
✦ by WeSurviveAbuse.com updated from May 24 2025
We’re taught to look [...]
Consent Beyond the Bedroom: Women’s Autonomy in Dating and Relationships
Consent is not only the right to say yes. It is the freedom to say no [...]
If Every Man Gets to Ask Women Why She Said No, Where Does It End?
There is an age when "Why?" is one of the sweetest and most exhausting [...]
Featuring Bunmi: Who Benefits When Women Are Encouraged to Leave Their Sexual Boundaries Open to Revision?
Who benefits when women are encouraged to understand their sexual boun [...]
Consent, Boundaries, Women’s Rights & Female Autonomy: What Every Woman Has the Right to Say No To
There are conversations we keep having because somewhere along the way [...]
10 Reasons Women Aren’t Bigots for Saying No to Dating or Sex
Human dignity should be universal. Sexual access should never be.
We [...]