When a man kills three women over his lifetime, the system did not just fail once. It failed over and over. It was designed this way. Not all men will…
It was just past midnight on a Sunday in May 2003 when fifteen-year-old Sakia Gunn stood at a Newark bus corner, laughing with her friends. She was coming back from…
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…
Remember that race where the person winning started celebrating ….but forgot to officially cross the finish line and win the race? And then the person in second place came…
Some people do not attack women’s boundaries directly. They fog them. They turn a woman’s “no” into a debate. They turn her caution into “overreacting.” They turn her discomfort into…
Before we talk about solutions, we have to be honest about the danger. Women and girls are not imagining this. We are not being “too fearful.” We are not…
Every month, an average of more than 70 women in the United States are shot and killed by an intimate partner. Everytownreasearch.org | based on analysis of CDC National Violent Death…
When an abuser stops caring that people know, a restraint has fallen away. Shame is no longer holding him back. Reputation is no longer enough to contain him. That can…
We can’t have an honest conversation about why our grandmothers—and their mothers before them—often prescribed silence in the face of pain without acknowledging the brutal truth: women who dared to…
If you are a Black person, you know what it is like when the “both sides” playbook is used against you. You know what it is like to be pushed…