Category: female health civil rights
Creating Safe Spaces: Encouraging Open Discussions About Personal Security
How many times have you hesitated before speaking up about your [...]
The Resistance of Celia: The Enslaved Black Girl Who Fought Back
updated for 2025
Celia’s name should be spoken not just as a victim, [...]
Human Rights Watch: Inadequate Cervical Cancer Prevention and Care for Black Women in the United States Mississippi Delta
Ignoring Women’s Health is Killing Us.Dismissing, underfunding, and er [...]
12 Unapologetic Truths: Your Rights as a Woman Are Unconditional (Audio/podcast)
Your rights as a woman are not up for debate. You don [...]
The Power of Self-Affirmation in the Black Community
When an executive order was released "canceling" acknowled [...]
From Chains to Cells: The Unbroken Thread of Black Women’s Pain and Resistance in Prisons
In her book, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, an [...]
When Survivors See Through Lies, We Refuse to Pretend (audio/podcast)
In her career, Tonya GJ Prince has had the honor of encounte [...]
Heads Up: Lying Is a Powerful Abuse Tactic
Abusers don’t just harm; they manipulate reality itself. Lies are [...]
Scratches as Self-Defense in Domestic Violence Cases
.....When I asked *Mika whether she had called the police before she t [...]
International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Violence Against Women in the Holocaust
I'm not always certain what the "right thing" to say on impo [...]