Healing

There is something else we should remember when reading the childhood stories of Maya Angelou, or anyone else who survived something overwhelming Adults cannot travel backward in time and diagnose …

We tend to imagine trauma as someone crying when they remember something terrible. Sometimes it looks nothing like that. Sometimes trauma looks like anger. Sometimes it looks like working constantly …

updated from June 9. 2025 It’s so tricky out here these days… Let’s make something abundantly clear: Being an ally to a group, a cause, or a community does not …

Women have historically organized around power differently. Again and again, women have sought power to create refuge rather than conquest, safety rather than supremacy, opportunity rather than control. This is …

I deeply despise stories that depict women finding their way through to the other side of sex work or a season of promiscuity as being synonymous with change for the …

🔥 What Is Gaslighting? – WE Survive AbuseIt is a heavy thing to realize that the people with the loudest microphones are completely blind to the ground you walk on. …

updated from June 2025 This history is not symbolic. It is specific, embodied, and carried forward through language. For many Black American women, forced renaming has never been a side …

But self-knowledgeBut self-knowledgeThe reason I refuse diluted language is because I have watched institutions dilute women’s experiences for decades. In fact, just yesterday I was scrolling online when I came …

Some of us were never told that we deserved to feel safe.We were told to keep going.To be strong.To not make a scene.To forgive.To forget.To move on. So we did.We …

  Updated from November 2025 How hard is it to just say “mothers and…..?”   In 2024, Black women had a maternal mortality rate of 44.8 deaths per 100,000 live …