Category: Female Safety
Even in Progressive Spaces, Systems Still Fail Survivors
In many justice-minded communities, we say the right things:
🟩 Beli [...]
Systems Often Fail to Protect Autonomous People
We’re often told:“If you just speak up…”“If you leave…”“If you fight [...]
🧩 The Price of Silence: Black Women, Coercive Control, and the Hidden Costs of “Unity”
There is a kind of violence that doesn’t leave bruises.A kind that hid [...]
🧭 QUESTIONS TO DETECT REARTICULATION IN ACTION
1. Who is this “solution” really for?
Does it center women an [...]
🧩 REARTICULATION: When the System Repackages Harm in New Clothes
WARNING TO THE LOVING, THE NURTURING, THE HEALERS:
The systems we f [...]
📢 Hidden Herstory: The Leesburg Stockade Girls
In the heat of July 1963, a group of Black girls in Americus, Georgia— [...]
💣 In Just One Second: 12 Ways People Tell You They’re Pro-Abuser
(And Maybe Capable of Abuse Themselves)
Sometimes it doesn’t take a [...]
When It’s Not Pride: 11 Ways Violence Against Black Women Hides Behind “Black Pride”
We lift up Black pride as sacred—a celebration of survival, brillian [...]
🏛️ What Rural Women Need from Policymakers
My professional advocacy work in domestic and sexual violence began [...]
💔 Why It’s Harder: Unique Barriers Rural Women Face When Seeking Help for Abuse
When a woman living in a rural area makes the courageous decision to [...]