female health civil rights

Before we begin, a word to younger generations: Please extend grace to the women who came before you. Many older women didn’t stay in abusive relationships because they were weak …

Gaslighting is when someone tries to make you doubt your own reality—your memory, your feelings, your instincts, your truth. It’s not just lying.It’s lying with the intention to control you. …

Before the world taught you to doubt yourself,before people gaslit you into second-guessing your own heartbeat,you knew. You knew what you felt.You knew what was wrong.You knew when something was …

Systems will tell you that you are safe.Systems will tell you they exist to protect you.But when danger comes, when violence shatters lives, when harm happens on their watch —systems …

Letting go is not weakness.Letting go is not failure.Letting go is not giving up. Letting go is sacred.Letting go is survival.Letting go is Womanist work. Because when you’ve been taught …

Boundaries aren’t walls.They’re doors you open for love — and shut to harm. For too long, women, especially Black women, have been praised for how much we can endure.How much …

In a world where women — especially minoritized women, poor women, disabled women, elder women, and other marginalized women all over the globe — have been insulted, underestimated, and dehumanized …

Women fight differently. When the Taliban ordered Afghan women not to sing,they sang anyway.Soft, loud, hidden, public — they sang their existence into the air, refusing to be erased. During …

I’m not angry at other women.Not even the ones who shame, silence, or mock.Not even the ones who call truth-telling “too much,” “too angry,” or “too divisive.” I understand the …

Like most acts of violence against women,invasion of boundaries doesn’t just show up with brute force.It counts on betrayal.It counts on a hand extended, not in sisterhood, but in sabotage. …