Female Health and Safety

Now streaming on Amazon Prime There is something very familiar happening around Is God Is. (The Color Purple? Eve’s Bayou? Is that you?) A Black woman creates a story about violence, …

There is something particularly sad about a woman becoming one of the world’s great symbols of female sexuality while privately struggling with an illness rooted in her reproductive health, enduring …

Lead with Love That’s what they say. And when they do, never let anyone tell you that leading with love doesn’t include women and girls and our safety and rights. …

When you watch Thelma & Louise, you aren’t just watching a movie; you’re watching a masterclass in how society sets up a trap for a woman before she even opens …

We are nowhere close to being able to collapsing women’s issues into total invisibility……Maybe in thousands of years or something, but not now. Sometime AFTER people learn to listen to …

Every so often, a politician appears who is interesting not because you agree with everything he says, but because he appears willing to say something his own political tribe does …

A movement does not become more compassionate by asking the vulnerable to become invisible. True justice makes more room without removing the people who were already standing there.   Who …

The Quiet Zone authored by Petal Kimberly Samuel There is a kind of quiet that feels like freedom. The house after everyone has gone to sleep. Sitting in the car …

Risk for harm grows where care is uneven. And for Black women, care has never been evenly given. Healthcare didn’t listen. Domestic violence services do not either. Where are Black …

We were taught what women won. We weren’t always taught what women paid. We should talk more about the women who died fighting for women’s civil rights. Women did not …