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Meet Black Survivors, advocates, and healing practitioners sharing their experiences with self-care, aromatherapy, body awareness, and reclaiming peace after trauma. Sometimes healing begins with something as ordinary as a warm …

The Survival Lesson in Miss Evers’ Boys One of the hardest lessons we learn about human behavior is that people don’t have to seem evil to participate in something harmful. …

I have spent many years listening to women and girls describe things others expected them to accept. Things that hurt them. Things that frightened them. They were told these were necessary …

Content note: this post discusses strangulation, sexual violence, and domestic homicide. If it feels like everyone is suddenly talking about strangulation, it is not your imagination. Police departments are reporting …

I thought about a woman I once served today. Back when I was serving people with disabilities. She crossed my mind because the day that she became paralyzed, she was …

For years, women were warned about the “date-rape drug.” Watch your drink. Don’t leave your glass unattended. Be careful if a stranger offers you something. None of that advice is …

Court cases are fascinating. Human behavior is fascinating. Law is fascinating. We are allowed to look. We also need to remember how to look. I am sharing this article from …

Remember those standardized tests where you practically got a few points just for following directions? Write your name in the correct box. Fill in the bubble completely. Use a No. …

Taylor Townsend was sixteen years old and already the No. 1 junior girl in the world. She had won the Australian Open junior singles title, collected major doubles titles and …

I do not have to dismiss myself simply because someone else does. There is a dangerous distance between “we don’t know” and “there is nothing there.” Women often meet that …