Category: Health
✊🏾 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 [...]
10 Surprising Facts About Breast Cancer (for Women)
Most breast cancers are not inheritedOnly about 5–10 % of brea [...]
Signs of Covert Abuse and Why It is So Harmful
Covert abuse is abuse that hides in plain sight. It’s harm done in way [...]
What Happens When Women Reach Their Breaking Point: The Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Cost of Carrying Too Much for Too Long
When a human being, especially a woman who has been carrying others fo [...]
Why Women Must Use Our Labor Wisely: From Survival to True Progress
In my early 30's I realized that I had three female conditions bre [...]
The Truth About Bias Against Black Hair in Professional Spaces
It is never about who wears what hairstyle. Or who wore it first. That [...]
The Truth We Don’t Want to See About Trauma and the Body
Meeting men and women in their final years teaches you something—somet [...]
📺 Television Is Not Liberation
(No matter how many awards, episodes, or characters say otherwise)
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“Demand Transparency When Women’s and Children’s Safety Is at Stake”
Too many are hiding behind titles and faceless entities — the council, [...]
The Hidden Role of Women in Child Exploitation: Kenya’s “Madams”
SELF CARE ALERT
This one minute clip is difficult to watch. Please [...]
The Mothers of Modern Gynecology: Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey
The True Story Behind the Surgical Legacy Built on Black Women's Pain
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After A Doctor Told Her There Was Nothing She Could Do About Her Diagnosis, Lupita Nyong’o Is Desperate To Make A Change For Other Women Who Might “Suffer In Silence”
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After A Doctor Told Her There Was Nothing She Could Do Abou [...]
Janet Jackson Protected Eve—But Why Did She Have to? (video)
Rapper and actress Eve shared a moment that many women in entertain [...]
Survivor Affirmations: My Health Story Matters and My Voice is Unafraid (video short)
Survivor Affirmations: I Have a Disability and Reclaim My Voice (v [...]
What Are Pseudoseizures? Understanding Psychogenic Seizures in Trauma Survivors
Remember, trauma lives in the body........
Psychogenic non-epileptic [...]
When Pretending You’re Okay Is Wearing You Down
What to Do Instead of Faking It All the Time
Some days, pretending to [...]
You Don’t Have to Keep Fighting. You’re Allowed to Heal.
There comes a time when the world will keep handing you more work to [...]
When Love Is a Lie: Understanding Grooming Beyond Childhood
Because grooming doesn’t stop at 18. It just gets harder to prove.
We [...]