A Book and Film I Recommend: Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
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…
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…