Female Safety

updated from June 2025 This history is not symbolic. It is specific, embodied, and carried forward through language. For many Black American women, forced renaming has never been a side …

updated from April 7, 2023 Sometimes they try to make you feel like you’re “too emotional,” “too sensitive,” or “doing too much.” But the truth is: when something feels off, …

1. Post-separation violenceWomen are worried about what happens after leaving, filing for divorce, requesting protection, or cutting contact. The danger often rises when an abusive person feels control slipping. This …

  Introduction The issue is not that mothers will stop being mothers in real life. Women will still carry babies through morning sickness, back pain, swelling, fear, hope, and those …

Some of us were never told that we deserved to feel safe.We were told to keep going.To be strong.To not make a scene.To forgive.To forget.To move on. So we did.We …

“Will a highly neutral parentage framework be sensitive enough to recognize unequal power, violence, coercion, reproductive abuse, and sexual assault?” If institutions are going to look women in the face …

One of the best docuseries that I have seen about “forced interaction” resulting in prolonged stalking is the Hulu docuseries Stalking Samantha: 13 Years of Terror. Samantha met Christopher Thomas …

“Why doesn’t she leave? Why did she go back?” We don’t spend a lot of time examining what makes women doubt themselves. I look forward to the days when we …

There are wounds that don’t stop bleeding just because the headlines fade.There are names that deserve to be spoken with reverence—not only in tragedy, but in truth. We know Amiri …

updated from April 19, 2025 There is a battle still being fought—quietly, daily, in the hearts, homes, and conversations of women across the world. A battle for a basic, sacred …