Karla Brada Mendez thought that she was getting a second chance on life when she started going to AA meetings. But instead she met Eric Allen Earle, an AA old-timer …
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✊🏾 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 family is mad at me and now I’m so confused. “He is trying to change but sometimes he …
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Why Are Women Still Expected to Risk Our Safety Just to Exercise?
Like so many Survivors of childhood sexual violence — and other forms of abuse — I live with chronic pain. Some days, it’s excruciating. But nearly every medical professional I …
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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 incidents.” We’ve got to look at patterns. Because what happened to Sonya Massey wasn’t random. Sean Grayson …
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🌿 You’re Not Required to March in Every Parade
Advocates are not required to be active in every cause. As human beings, we can’t do it — not physically, not emotionally, not spiritually. That’s honesty. That’s capacity. The world …
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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’t need approval, permission, or public debate. 💜 Her personal choices are hers alone: Her hairstyle or how …
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✊🏾 When Policing Women Is Mistaken for Protecting Women
“When a woman goes hungry, more than her body suffers — her dignity, her power, her future are all at risk. Food justice is more than feeding; it’s freeing.” Women …
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When the Help Hurts: Understanding Institutional Betrayal
There is a special kind of pain that comes when the place you turned to for help becomes the source of another wound.That is institutional betrayal — when a system, …
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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 in the days when a woman could be fired because she was pregnant. Society …
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10 Surprising Facts About Breast Cancer (for Women)
Most breast cancers are not inheritedOnly about 5–10 % of breast cancers come from inherited genetic mutations (like BRCA1/2). The majority develop from other factors.👉 BreastCancer.org Breast pain is rarely …