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Category: Female Civil Rights

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What the Olympic Boxing Debate Really Reveals About Gender, Power & Responsibility
Disability and Chronic Illness, Female Civil Rights

What the Olympic Boxing Debate Really Reveals About Gender, Power & Responsibility

TGJP August 2, 2024
updated 2025 You know what truly angers and frustrates me about thi [...]
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10 Facts about Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls
child safety, Culture

10 Facts about Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls

TGJP April 17, 2024
  10 Facts About MMIWG by Tonya GJ Prince&nbsp [...]
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Justice for the Victims of the Freeway Phantom
Child Abuse, child safety

Justice for the Victims of the Freeway Phantom

TGJP September 11, 2023
Between between April 1971 and September 1972 five Black girls and Bla [...]
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Women Who Menstruate Have Every Right to Speak with Authority on Periods
Female Civil Rights, Female Health

Women Who Menstruate Have Every Right to Speak with Authority on Periods

TGJP July 23, 2023
  Women have every right to speak with authority abo [...]
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WE Survive Abuse: Adenomyosis Awareness Month
Disabilities, Disability and Chronic Illness

WE Survive Abuse: Adenomyosis Awareness Month

TGJP April 6, 2022
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🔥 When They Take It All Back: Why Some Survivors Recant
Campus violence, Child sexual abuse

🔥 When They Take It All Back: Why Some Survivors Recant

TGJP October 11, 2016
Updated for WeSurviveAbuse.com, 2025 Let’s return to this uncomfo [...]
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Whispered Civil Rights Movement Secrets: Fannie Lou Hamer the Truth Teller
Advocates/Activists, Black Women

Whispered Civil Rights Movement Secrets: Fannie Lou Hamer the Truth Teller

TGJP February 1, 2016
There are people—loud and determined—who would have you believe [...]
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She Lied to Herself First: How Women Protect Harmful Men—And Turn on Other Women
Abuse

She Lied to Herself First: How Women Protect Harmful Men—And Turn on Other Women

 updated from June 7, 2025 There’s a quiet lie that echoes through many women’s lives.A lie whispered in silence. Repeated in prayer. Spoken with e [...]
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Facing Reality: Identity Does Not Erase Patterns of Male Violence
Abuse

Facing Reality: Identity Does Not Erase Patterns of Male Violence

updated from March 11 2025 We can respect individuals while remaining honest about patterns. Those two things are not enemies. We cannot fix what we [...]
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“Why Do Her Posts Always Seem to Reassure Men, Not Women?”
Body safety

“Why Do Her Posts Always Seem to Reassure Men, Not Women?”

updated from Dec. 13 2025First of all, before I say anything else, for your own survival, believe her. You are growing awareness of who benefits f [...]
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10 Clear Signs He Doesn’t Respect You (And What Survivors Must Know About the Programming That Keeps Us Silent)
Womanism/Feminism

10 Clear Signs He Doesn’t Respect You (And What Survivors Must Know About the Programming That Keeps Us Silent)

 updated from Sep 28, 2025  Survival is one type of strength. Healing is another. We heal the things we never should have had to survive in the fir [...]
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When “Nothing Will Happen” Isn’t a Safety Plan: Asking About Real Safeguards
Abuse of Power

When “Nothing Will Happen” Isn’t a Safety Plan: Asking About Real Safeguards

updated from February 2026“If your confidence turns out to be misplaced, what protections exist for the people expected to absorb the consequences [...]
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Risk Doesn’t Rise by Accident—What Happens When Care is Uneven for Black Women
Abuse of Power

Risk Doesn’t Rise by Accident—What Happens When Care is Uneven for Black Women

Risk for harm grows where care is uneven.And for Black women, care has never been evenly given.Healthcare didn’t listen. Domestic violence se [...]
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The Burden of Blindness: How Systems Force Us to Ignore Our Own Reality
Culture

The Burden of Blindness: How Systems Force Us to Ignore Our Own Reality

I have been talking about "institutional betrayal" and women and I wanted to acknowledge Dr. Jennifer Freyd who is credited with coining the p [...]
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“Say the Right Words and Walk Right In” Was Always Stupid AF
Abuse of Power

“Say the Right Words and Walk Right In” Was Always Stupid AF

Women should not have to wait for a man to demonstrate the danger before anyone respects the warning.....This week, two former NBA players announc [...]
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Is “Woke” Just the Newest Word for an Old Fear? A History.
Abuse of Power

Is “Woke” Just the Newest Word for an Old Fear? A History.

Black Americans have seen this rhythm before.There are periods when Black American faces, voices, and stories become highly visible.Film. [...]
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A Right You Cannot Define Is a Right You Cannot Defend
Boundaries

A Right You Cannot Define Is a Right You Cannot Defend

 She demonstrated wisdom across a lifetime. She died a wise woman. And still people took advantage of her and her people. She Was Wise. They Broke [...]
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