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There is an expectation in our society that women and girls will take responsibility for men and boys who refuse to take responsibility for themselves. We don’t always say it …

Sometimes the earliest warning comes from the youngest person in the house. Children notice things. They notice when their mother lowers her voice before answering the phone. They notice when …

Free Download Daily Journal Healing After Narcissistic Abuse Pages Healing Through Art Workbook……PDF     Some of the worst institutional failures begin with somebody noticing something wrong. An employee notices …

Someone on social media asked what parents have been asking for years: Why do very young children need to learn sex education… I have weighed in often on what specifically …

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 …