Category: Culture
Black Women’s Safety Is Not Optional: It’s a Justice Issue
1. We Are Often the First to Speak Up—and the Last to Be Protected
Bl [...]
You Don’t Get to Speak on Our Hair Journey
For Black American women, the natural hair journey is deeply persona [...]
Curves, Control & Convenient Amnesia: The 90s and Early 2000s Edition
The 90s were velvet and vinyl,grunge and glitter,a time when girl [...]
Our Tongues Survived the Fire: The Story of Xhosa, Survival, and Respect
There are languages that carry the rhythm of a people’s soul.Languages [...]
Who Benefits From My Silence?
Every time I swallowed the truth, someone else got fed.Fed with powe [...]
Silencing Is Always the First Strike
Survivors of violence—whether in war zones or in personal life—often f [...]
Even When They Didn’t Hear Your “No,” You Still Deserve to Be Heard
Sometimes the harm didn’t stop when you said no.Sometimes the people w [...]
Juneteenth: Proof That Even Our Freedom Is Seen as “Too Much”
Juneteenth is not just a holiday. It is a mirror—reflectin [...]
Aesthetic Gatekeeping: You Are Not Here for Their Approval Ratings
Let’s talk about one of the oldest games in the patriarchy playbook—an [...]
Until This Country Reckons with How It Treats Black People, It Will Never Heal Its Violence
Until this country reckons with how it treats Black people—how its sys [...]
✂️ Unlearning the Lie: When “Being a Good Person” Means Upholding Harm
Some of us were taught that being a “good person” meant keeping quiet. [...]
🖤 “They Couldn’t Deny What They Never Gave”
✊🏾 1. Many Black women rejected the idea that womanhood flows from w [...]
🛑 Start Noticing: Saying No Is Not Hate
You may want to start observing the number of times men declar [...]
When the Request for Truth Is Framed as Hate
It’s an old tactic.Polished. Weaponized.Still as effective as ever.
W [...]
When It’s Not Pride: 11 Ways Violence Against Black Women Hides Behind “Black Pride”
We lift up Black pride as sacred—a celebration of survival, brillian [...]
What Is Spiritual Violence? And Why We Must Talk About It
“If your faith doesn’t let you cry, rage, rest, or leave the places [...]
Dance Is a Weapon, a Womb, a Way Back to Ourselves
They tried to bury us, but they didn’t know we were seeds. And we da [...]
Consent Never Came, But the Agreement Was Made
from WESurviveAbuse.com
No one asked her.No one asked the girl with t [...]
🌺 Believing Yourself First: A Return to the Oldest Wisdom You Have
Before the world taught you to doubt yourself,before people gaslit you [...]
Coercion in Disguise: When Love Asks You to Lie
When someone pressures a woman to lie, to go against her beliefs, he [...]