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At first glance, the story of Marcia Johnson can produce a very simple conclusion. A nonprofit dedicated to helping poor people posted Samuel Scott’s $5,000 bail after he had been …

Listening tells you so much about where we really are as a society. A WNBA player spoke about her experience with sexual violence. The comments were not kind. There is …

 Harm does not always arrive announcing itself as hatred. Sometimes it comes smiling, agreeing with 80 percent of what you say, and spending the remaining 20 percent figuring out exactly …

Frequency tells us how often harm happens. It does not tell us how much harm we should be willing to accept. I have finally found the words for something I …

I went to grade school with a girl who might put you on the mind of the loveliness of Nina Simone or Victoria Santa Cruz. People were extremely cruel to …

They tell me that I have despised being told what to do since I was a baby. I LOVE learning. Those are two different things, and sometimes, depending on who …

I have been talking about “institutional betrayal” and women and I wanted to acknowledge Dr. Jennifer Freyd who is credited with coining the phrase. “Institutional betrayal” describes how trusted institutions …

Beautiful Brazil. A country that, like many others, has a long way to go when it comes to how it treats the women and girls who are its citizens.  Women …

“History did not begin when Europe started writing about women’s rights. Across the African continent, women had long been educating, organizing, governing, protecting communities, and shaping history in ways the …

In this episode of We Survive Abuse, we step into a modern fable about a simple bench, a tired woman, and a town that does not realize it is watching …