Category: Healing
No Gratitude, No Quilt: A Lesson from My Mama (and a Little Fried Chicken)
*Updated for 2025Several months ago, my mom asked me to pick [...]
What Racists and Child Rape Apologists Have in Common
Seems like all you have to do is make one simple statement:The problem [...]
🔊 The Right to Speak: What a Difference a Voice Makes
Updated for 2025Silence
“You have the right to remain silent.”
I [...]
High Five From WESurvive: Lavon Morris Grant A Spiritual Miracle
In early 2002 or so a group of us Women of Color working in sexual and [...]
The Benefit of Anger for Survivors: A Fire That Heals
For too long, Survivors have been told to suppress their anger. “Be [...]
High Five from WESurvive: 3 Crucial Life Lessons from Survivor LaQuisha Hall
Survivors are my favorite people. Hands down, no contest. I love [...]
Update: Tonya GJ's DIY Empowerment & Refueling Using only 23 Social Justice Movies
Update: (new films, new content) Thank God it is Fall! I love fall, bu [...]
What's In a Name: A Survivor of Child Sexual Abuse names Her Rapist
Did I tell y’all about that time that they printed a speech I d [...]
Why Does Society Make it Difficult for Survivors of Rape & Abuse to Come Forward? Part 1
I watched "Cosby: The Women Speak."
Actually, [...]
6 Smart Tactics to Help Survivors Strengthen Confidence
People who have been abused often struggle with self-doubt. Yeah [...]
The Eye of the Child Sexual Abuse Survivor: A Black Man Takes the Mic
It is my honor to highlight the words of author Tremayne Moore a [...]
Did You Hear the Joke about Blue Ivy, Brown Girls & Sexual Abuse? ME NEITHER
updated from August 2015
People often assume that if you’re bol [...]
Letter from an Angry Survivor of Sexual Violence about this Bill Cosby Tragedy
7/7/2015Tonight I am angry.
That isn't my default setting t [...]
The Hideous Scars of Child Sexual Abuse: Self Doubt
Self-doubt.
I think that one reason that some people can't unde [...]
Why domestic violence advocates say the best way to help survivors is to give them back control
Abusers control. That’s their No. 1 tactic to keep domestic abuse su [...]
🎁 Unwrapping the Present: A Reflection for Survivors
When you're struggling, the world is full of people offering advice [...]