Disability and Chronic Illness

Before critique culture.Before hot takes. Before performance listening.Before everyone felt required to respond. Women told stories.And other women sat with them. Not to analyze.Not to correct.Not to diagnose.Not to “balance …

I was confused by my own exhaustion. I had spent years doing what some people think is the hardest part of advocacy. Helping women find shelter Securing funds for rent …

That move is often about re-centering. When Black women name race and gender together, the response isn’t just disagreement—it’s anxiety about losing narrative control. Saying “misogyny is older” becomes a …

It costs energy—the kind your body needs to rest and repair. It costs peace—the quiet that allows your nervous system to settle. It costs trust—in yourself, in your knowing, in …

This isn’t about a song but like most art, it offers life lessons. Jingle Bells” was written in 1857 by James Lord Pierpont, a white composer who worked in minstrel …

Pain hurts in a way that words fail. Pain doesn’t announce itself politely.It arrives like weather—uninvited, undeniable, and immune to reason. Pain is a shadow you can’t outrun,a ghost that …

There’s a strange thing happening in our world today—especially online—where people want to argue about the words we use instead of facing the truth behind them. Take the word “dominate.” …

There are men who prey on men. Go ahead and get the gasp out of the way. Because this seems to be a truth everybody sees but is afraid to …

This poster could not be more correct. You do not do this work without encountering people who do not recover. Some are in prison. Some are in bondage in some …

This post is dedicated to James Ransone, who died by suicide two weeks after this was written. James spoke openly about being violated by a tutor in Baltimore at the …