Category: Consent
When Words Are Used to Control You: Everyday Red Flags People Miss
✦ by WeSurviveAbuse.com
Not all control looks like yelling, threats, [...]
Call Him What? When Abusers & Traffickers Demand to Be Named
✦ by WeSurviveAbuse.com
In courtroom after courtroom, from high-pro [...]
Male Deception Gets a Pass
And Women Who Tell the Truth Pay the Price.
Let’s tell the truth th [...]
There Is No Bad Day to Tell the Truth
To every Survivor who has ever hesitated, second-guessed, or swallowed [...]
✋🏽 When Accountability Feels Like an Attack to Him
[WeSurviveAbuse.com]
Some men don’t fear the harm they cause.They fea [...]
What FGM and “Gender-Critical” Child Medicalization Have in Common
In the work of protecting children, hard truths often sit at the inter [...]

Stop Recasting Boundaries as Ignorance
With all my heart and soul I hate when men do this,
Too often, wh [...]
Why We Must Update Our Own Personal Privacy Policies Too
[WeSurviveAbuse.com]
Companies update their privacy policies all th [...]
Every Woman Has the Right to Say ‘No Thanks
Since the dawn of time, women have been pushed, scolded, and lectured [...]
Consent Is Not an Afterthought. It Is the First Requirement
from WeSurviveAbuse.com
Let’s make this plain:Consent is not a footno [...]
Whispers of Harm: The Global Agreement Against Victims
from WESurviveAbuse.com
They’ve never met.Different languages.Differ [...]
Consent Never Came, But the Agreement Was Made
from WESurviveAbuse.com
No one asked her.No one asked the girl with t [...]
Collusion Without Conversation: The Code of Abuse
They’ve never met.
Different backgrounds.Different languages.Differen [...]
🎯 Pattern Denial: The Sinister Art of Pretending Not to Know
Some truths are not too complex to understand—they're just too inconve [...]
They Weren’t Just Controlling—They Were Consuming
Survivors often face: the coercion to disappear inside someone else’s [...]
Lobotomies and Trust Issues: The Historic Reasons Black Folks Avoid Therapy (w/links)
Listen, followers of my work know that I have been open about getting [...]

How Women’s Pain Is Minimized to Keep Men Comfortable
If there were no men in the room,no men in the equation,no men to prot [...]

Boundaries Are Living Proof That You Believe Your Life Is Worth Protecting
Systems will tell you that you are safe.Systems will tell you they exi [...]

🌿 Healing After Emotional Abuse: You Are Not Broken, You Are Becoming
Healing after emotional abuse isn't about "getting back to normal."It’ [...]
No One is Like Us. Women Fight Differently
Women fight differently.
When the Taliban ordered Afghan women not [...]