Female Safety

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” — Zora Neale Hurston   And see, I think about things like this when I …

Nurse Jennifer Melle was doing what few people would want to do: providing care — intimate, necessary, and skillful care — to a male prisoner convicted of child sexual abuse. …

Updated 8/3/25 So the latest update is that Jennifer Melle has been suspended. Extremely disappointing. She was providing care to a male prisoner.  Nurse Melle is a veteran professional who …

The crisis of child predators isn’t going anywhere. Unless the adults change our harmful ways and change them right away. Because the pressure has always been placed especially on female …

As incredibly talented as she is, Jenifer Lewis is also a teacher!  She is a teacher to all who struggle with mental illness, racism, sexism, and abuse. She is open …

🍷headed into the fourth of July, right?…….Freedom? Because they’d rather keep us on defensethan dare teach him self-control. Because it’s easier to hand us rulesthan hold him accountable for crimes. …

It may be noticed when specific groups build their own healing spaces but nearly everyone builds their own healing spaces where people who live, speak, cry, die, and sing like …

Every time I swallowed the truth, someone else got fed. Fed with power.Fed with protection.Fed with the benefit of the doubt. But it wasn’t me. 🗣️ Silence Is Not Neutral …

I need to speak to you plain today. There comes a time in healing when you must take a long, hard look around you and ask:Who benefits from my silence? …

Do you see all this debate over “women’s spaces” and NONE over men’s spaces? There’s a line from a 1976 film that still echoes today: “I’m as mad as hell, …