Grooming

Another book from my personal shelf… Some books stay with you long after you’ve finished reading them. Bastard Out of Carolina (1992) is one of those books. But I want …

What I love about Octavia Spencer’s production direction of “The Lost Women of Highway 20” is that she intentionally spotlighted all the missed opportunities, when people chose not to listen …

Your name is one of the first things you learn belongs to you. That is exactly why controlling it can carry so much power. Sometimes an abusive person doesn’t merely …

You see these movements getting furious with Black women for not asking “how high” because they snapped their fingers? Knowing your worth is not about believing you are better than …

Something strange is happening in the advice women are being given. We are living through an extraordinary period of sophisticated fraud. Government agencies routinely warn us about romance scammers, fake …

There is a reason people cling so tightly to labels when harm is exposed. Often, it is not confusion. It is fear. Fear of admitting they were misled. Fear of …

updated from February 2026 “If your confidence turns out to be misplaced, what protections exist for the people expected to absorb the consequences?” When certainty replaces preparation We have all …

Let’s talk about the girls no one gives any energy to. Protecting women does not require fearing men. It requires refusing to make women responsible for managing dangerous ones. Feminism …

Beautiful Brazil. A country that, like many others, has a long way to go when it comes to how it treats the women and girls who are its citizens.  Women …

When she is a target for control or harm. Forced Sterilization (The Global Eugenics Playbook): From the targeted sterilization of Indigenous women in Peru and Canada to marginalized women in …