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When a group has been treated as property, their boundaries are never automatically recognized —they have to be asserted, defended, and reasserted across generations. That takes energy and labor.   …

Child marriage is often mistakenly viewed as an issue exclusive to the Global South, but it persists significantly across the West, including the United States and Europe. In the U.S., …

Because clarity is how women find themselves againwhen the world keeps speaking fluently in half-truths.     There is a kind of language that sounds full but carries selective truth. …

When we treat symptoms as causes, harm finds new ways to grow. When we face the root, we begin to change what is possible.   When We Make Porn the …

With war, comes murder and rape Pornography is often blamed as the reason violence—especially violence against women—has escalated. That sounds clean. It sounds decisive. It feels like an answer. But history …

updated from July 31 2016  Consensual sex and sexual violence are not the same. They are not close.They are not interchangeable.They do not belong in the same sentence without care, …

I hope that these last few weeks have taught us to take history as a tool for learning lessons …..for everyone. Education is never a “scam”. The price may be …

 updated from 2/2/ 2025   Without Black women, the miracles of  Black history would not be possible.      So much of who I am, I owe to the women …

You are seen. You are heard. Survivors are speaking in this moment.And when they speak, something important shifts. Not toward labels. Not toward debates.Not toward protecting identities that were never …

Adults. Adults can either create safety or harm.  We play a hand in upholding abusers and harmers of children. A larger part than we want to admit.  Not just in …