Category: Female Health and Safety
A Slap to the Ear Is Not “Just a Slap”: What Survivors Need to Know About Ear Injuries, Concussion Symptoms, and Strangulation
Some injuries announce themselves wi [...]
How People Prompt or Lure Women to Prove Their Worth
"Why doesn't she leave? Why did she go back?"
We don't spend [...]
Lucy Diggs Slowe: She Protected Us in Silence So We Could One Day Speak
“Because boundaried spaces don’t build themselves—someone has [...]
Using Michelle Obama’s Image to Justify White Supremacy Is a Self-Own—And a Betrayal
If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll [...]
The Murder of Sakia Gunn: Why the World Looked Away, and Why Her Community Refused to Forget
It was just past midnight on a Sunday in May 2003 when fifteen [...]
Softness Is Beautiful. Safety Is Behavior.
The other day, I saw a man putting on makeup.
He was [...]
10 Times Oppression Against Women Fought to Keep Its Power
Oppression against women does not always disappear whe [...]
This Is No Time for a Victory Lap: 35 Modern Dangers Women Are Still Being Pushed to Tolerate
Remember that race where the person winning started ce [...]
Valaida Snow: The Black American Jazz Star Caught in Nazi-Occupied Europe
There are some women history remembers only halfway.It r [...]
Why Black Women Stay So Careful When We Are in Distress
It shattered me that as Cherrie Moore was being punched in [...]