Category: Herstory/History

Survivor Mary Lumpkin: The Woman Who Turned a Place of Pain Into a Place of Promise
Before history knew her as a symbol, Mary Lumpkin was a w [...]

The World Has Studied Women’s Reactions More Than Men’s Actions
The people carrying the pain and the burdens are often the people le [...]

Consent Is Freedom: A Woman’s Right to Belong to Herself
Affirmation:
My body belongs to me. My voice matters. My boun [...]

The Language of Women’s Freedom: Feminophobia
For generations, women have been told they were imagining "it. [...]

How Many Times Must Women Be Told They Noticed Too Soon?
They think that we are stupid. ....
I'm g [...]

How We Villainize Black Women Who Disagree with Males, Violence, & Abuse: C. Delores Tucker
How We Villainize Black Women Who Disagree with Males C [...]

Deanna’s Law: 12 Systemic Failures That Changed 911 Response
The tragedy of Deanna Cook is a painful, textbook [...]

This Is Not Confusion. It Is Memory: Black Women, Language, and the Right to Self-Definition.
updated from June 2025
This history is not symbolic. It is sp [...]

The Burden of Blindness: How Systems Force Us to Ignore Our Own Reality
I have been talking about "institutional betrayal" and women a [...]

Part 2: Why I Resist Diluted Language
But self-knowledgeBut self-knowledgeThe reason I refuse dilu [...]