female health civil rights

“There is no screening process for the males who are allowed into women’s spaces. That silence is the policy.” 🌾 1. The Hidden Reality Across gyms, shelters, restrooms, hospitals, and …

“When a woman says, ‘I don’t feel safe,’ she’s not creating a problem — she’s revealing one.” There was a time when the safety of women was understood as sacred. …

To be socialized as a woman means to be trained — subtly and overtly — in what the world expects from those born female. It’s a lifetime of unspoken lessons, …

We are not what ignorance calls us. We are not who ignorance says we are. And we no longer owe our silence in exchange for phony belonging. Women are shedding …

When women stop listening to other women about safety—when you say, “That never happens,” or “Who cares?”—you hand over our collective protection. You turn the volume down on our warnings, …

When children are trapped in abusive homes, they’re not just harmed by the acts themselves. They’re trained through language. Words become cages. The same phrases that should nurture them are …

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism. Shirley Chisholm   From the earliest movements for freedom, Black women have never …

People who support Survivors—from all walks of life—should know this: many Survivors are people of faith. Not all. But many. Some draw strength from Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Catholicism, African traditional …

Karla Brada Mendez thought that she was getting a second chance on life when she started going to AA meetings. But instead she met Eric Allen Earle, an AA old-timer …

She called me because I was serving as her victim advocate: His family is mad at me and now I’m so confused. “He is trying to change but sometimes he …