Category: Female Health and Safety

Weâre Done Paying the Toll for âAcceptanceâ
We are not what ignorance calls us.We are not who ignorance sa [...]

When Women Forget We Are Women
When women stop listening to other women about safetyâwhen you say, âT [...]

Stop Calling It Respect When Itâs Really Silence
When children are trapped in abusive homes, theyâre not just harmed by [...]

Black Women Have Always Spoken Truth to Power â and We Still Will
In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination ar [...]

đż Faith, Healing, and the Work of Safe People
People who support Survivorsâfrom all walks of lifeâshould know th [...]

Twelve Steps to Danger: How Alcoholics Anonymous Can Be a Playground for Violence-Prone Members (from ProPublica)
Karla Brada Mendez thought that she was getting a second chance on lif [...]

âđž Since When Did a Man Saying Heâs Changed Become a Gospel Truth?
She called me because I was serving as her victim advocate:His fam [...]

âWhy Are Women Still Told to Have Faith in Men Who âRebrandâ Themselves?â
âIf his change requires your suffering to prove it, it isnât change [...]

âWhy Do We Treat Male âChangeâ Like a Sacred Revelation Instead of a Responsibility?â
A man "changes".Why do we women receive this as our "marching orde [...]

Why Are Women Still Expected to Risk Our Safety Just to Exercise?
Like so many Survivors of childhood sexual violence â and other form [...]