Health

  Some injuries announce themselves with bruises. Others move in quietly, sit behind the ear, ring through the night, and make a woman wonder if she is “just stressed.” That …

Calling Things by Their Proper Name: Honoring Dr. Angella Dorothea Ferguson “The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.” — Confucius Sometimes the most powerful change …

My strength is sacred, but I do not have to carry everything alone. I release the belief that asking for help makes me weak. Support is not failure; it is …

Discouragement is part of the battle. It always has been. But defeatist language can become dangerous when it stops people from seeking help, making plans, or naming what they truly …

While coaching and counseling can both support Survivors, they are not the same service. Counseling is usually clinical mental health support. It is medical care. Your insurance plan may pay …

“Being asked to ignore degradation is not an invitation to be strong. It is an invitation to disappear. And you were never meant to disappear.” For Survivors, language is never …

When a group has been treated as property, their boundaries are never automatically recognized —they have to be asserted, defended, and reasserted across generations. That takes energy and labor.   …

When people express pain, shock, and grief; your confusion is not an emergency. And it is not more urgent than a woman’s grief. What we are witnessing, again, is how …

  updated from November 18 2025 If the harm is sex-specific, the language has to be sex-specific.Especially for Black women.Especially in maternal health.   Black women have always understood the …

“Institutionally, we still don’t understand what inclusion means. Just because you invite someone into a space, but you don’t provide the necessary resources to keep them and everyone else in …