Category: Female Health and Safety

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 [...]

We Are Not Trespassing: Black Disability and the Right to Simply Live
We Are Not Trespassing. We Are Living.
There is a kind of [...]

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 [...]

Hidden Camera Spying, Covert Filming, and the New Sexual Surveillance of Women and Girls: A FAQ
Back in the early 2000s, many women understood spy recor [...]

Stop Debating Women Into Danger: Saying You Care Is Not the Same as Protecting Women
When men debate whether women deserve safety, they a [...]
