Health

I’m a plant Mom again. I didn’t realize I was sensitive about it until I sent one of my relatives pictures of my plants. She didn’t say anything. 😕 I …

They don’t talk about how painful starting over can be.They don’t talk about how holy it is either. Sometimes it doesn’t look like courage.It looks like sitting on the floor …

Some women will drench you in compliments, promises, and affection —not to celebrate you,not to empower you,but to disarm you. They come smiling, arms wide open, calling you “sister,”only to …

Some silence isn’t ignorance. It’s allegiance. There are women who didn’t know.There are women who didn’t see.There are women who were misled, manipulated, used. But then—There are women who knew.Who …

*Note: This is meant to be an elementary explanation. It came out of a conversation. Sometimes you realize you are speaking but your words are not reaching the listener. Not …

It whispers to Black people—especially Black women —that we are here to help.To soothe.To teach.To forgive.To make the world softer for others, even when that world has no softness for …

They say:“Now is not the time.”“We’re all suffering right now.”“Don’t make it about race.” But racism doesn’t take a break during a crisis.So why are we expected to? Over and …

No one asked women anything. People just kept telling women how they “ought to” and “must” feel.-TGJP This is a very scary time for some women.Because it’s not just the …

There are few acts of violence as deliberately cruel and permanently scarring as an acid attack. When a woman is attacked with acid, it is not just her skin that …

We live in an age of shifting language.A time when even the most basic truths—like what it means to be a woman—are being rewritten, not by science or survival, but …