Category: Health

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 [...]

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 [...]