Category: Disability and Chronic Illness

When Leaders Forget Autonomy: A Reminder from Survivors Who’ve Had Enough
For Survivors, who are used to having their autonomy taken or dismisse [...]

Money, Morality, and Misunderstanding: Why Women Must See Clearly
Sometimes we align with people because we believe we share values.
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When the Help Hurts: Understanding Institutional Betrayal
There is a special kind of pain that comes when the place you turned t [...]
Sisterhood Can’t Be Real If It Skips Over Racism
Sisterhood can’t be real if it skips over racism.
There are women w [...]
Survivor Affirmation: I Will NOT Shrink Truth to Comfort Those Who Fear Boundaries
Boundaries are love not hate.
They are love in action — love for your [...]
Signs of Covert Abuse and Why It is So Harmful
Covert abuse is abuse that hides in plain sight. It’s harm done in way [...]
The Cage Looks Different, But It’s Still a Cage
Some men enforce gender roles by pushing women into cages:
Be obedien [...]
What Happens When Women Reach Their Breaking Point: The Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Cost of Carrying Too Much for Too Long
When a human being, especially a woman who has been carrying others fo [...]
Stop Shaming Women for Protecting Themselves
Too often, when a woman dares to speak up about her own safety needs, [...]
FAQ: Common Perpetrators, Race, and Bias — What U.S. Parents Must Know About CSAM
You can't find what you are not looking for.
Knowledge is power. An [...]
Changing Restrooms, Changing Questions: What You Should Know
How come they can build these things that bring men in closer proxim [...]

The Economist: Why Nations that Fail Women FAIL
Please do not watch this pretend that the West is exempt or any politi [...]
Why Doesn’t She Leave? Because Leaving Costs Money
Why doesn’t she leave? Because leaving costs money.
She needs firs [...]
‘Playing Victim’: How Racism Silences Black Voices and Blocks True Healing in America
Wherever there is harm—whether domestic violence, sexual violence, sta [...]
Imagine How Women Escaping Domestic Violence Feel
When my state got a new governor, among his first targets was domestic [...]
Feminism Can No Longer Afford to Be Generalized
Feminism can no longer afford to live in generalizations.When it does, [...]

Why Women Must Use Our Labor Wisely: From Survival to True Progress
In my early 30's I realized that I had three female conditions bre [...]

Remembering the Women Silenced by Political Violence in America (w/womanist film recommendations)
💡 Pattern to Notice:
Most of these women were killed not just for [...]
The War We Ignore: Violent Men, Mental Health Cuts, and the Cost to All of U.S.
Mental health systems have been gutted. Until we stop making excuses a [...]
Motherhood in the Shadow of Violence
Motherhood has often been romanticized in myths and sentiment, yet th [...]