Category: Health
🚨 25 Items & Systems That Risk Women’s Lives Because They Don’t Accommodate Women
Women and girls are frequently sent the message that demanding accommo [...]
Minimizing Chronic Pain Can Be Dangerous and Deadly (impactful Tiktok video story)
Pain hurts in a way that words fail.
Pain doesn’t announce itse [...]
We Didn’t Come This Far for Crumbs
A handful of men hold the feast, while women and darker-skinned people [...]
The REAL Reason Nursing Got Downgraded (No One Will Say This) | Nyesha Nicole
Health and healing are too sacred for this.
We need nurses. Women — a [...]
Why Are Women’s Rights Treated Like Optional Add-Ons?
For generations, conversations about women’s rights have been derailed [...]
⭐ Why I Resist Diluted Language Like “Birthing People”
There is a kind of language floating around today that sounds gentle o [...]
⭐ Signs Black Women Describe When They’re Being Treated Poorly During Pregnancy
These stories in the news around Black maternal health always hit home [...]
🌿 You Cannot Fight for Black Maternal Health While Erasing Black Women
We cannot protect what we refuse to name.
And we cannot save Black wo [...]
Disturbing Someone’s Peace Is VIOLENCE — And We Must Stop Pretending Otherwise
For too long, people have treated women’s safety, children’s innocence [...]
📣 Period Poverty in the U.S.: A Crisis of Dignity, Health & Equity
As women advocates, we must name this clearly: the struggle to afford [...]
Does Naming Ourselves Hurt Anyone? No. Erasing Us Does.
If the harm is sex-specific, the language has to be sex-specific.Espec [...]
Twelve Steps to Danger: How Alcoholics Anonymous Can Be a Playground for Violence-Prone Members (from ProPublica)
Karla Brada Mendez thought that she was getting a second chance on lif [...]
✊🏾 Since When Did a Man Saying He’s Changed Become a Gospel Truth?
She called me because I was serving as her victim advocate:
His fam [...]
Why Are Women Still Expected to Risk Our Safety Just to Exercise?
Like so many Survivors of childhood sexual violence — and other form [...]
How Many Warnings Does It Take Before We Protect Women Like Sonya Massey?
You know what?
We can’t afford to look at these cases as “isolated in [...]
🌿 You’re Not Required to March in Every Parade
Advocates are not required to be active in every cause.
As human bein [...]
Women Don’t Need Permission to Choose—We Need Power to Thrive
Every woman has the right to make her own choices. Full stop.She doesn [...]
✊🏾 When Policing Women Is Mistaken for Protecting Women
“When a woman goes hungry, more than her body suffers — her dignity, h [...]
When the Help Hurts: Understanding Institutional Betrayal
There is a special kind of pain that comes when the place you turned t [...]
May We Never Forget the Battles: When Pregnancy Was a Fireable Offense
It has gotten to the point where many of us in the West were not there [...]