Category: Herstory/History

🔥 Self-Sourced Power: When the World Won’t Crown You, You Crown Yourself
There comes a time in the life of every Survivor, every truth-teller, [...]

Until This Country Reckons with How It Treats Black People, It Will Never Heal Its Violence
Until this country reckons with how it treats Black people—how its sys [...]

Gaslighting on a National Scale: Why Treating Black Women Like a Burden Is Abuse, Not Oversight
Don’t Call It a Favor
The nerve—the absolute gall—to act like you're [...]

Why Body Safety for Black Women Must Include Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Reproductive Justice: Honoring Adriana Smith
When we talk about Adriana Smith, especially online, we must remembe [...]

When Human Resources Protects Power, Not People: What the Sean Combs Case Reveals
The trial against music mogul Sean Combs is not just about one [...]
Thread Made Iconic: A Love Letter to Our Bodies and the Women Who Sew Beauty Into the World
My Granny used to take us to the sewing shop, her eyes scanning the ro [...]

✊🏾 Women Deserve Safety Without Apology
It is not hateful to name a reality:The same laws that allow trans-i [...]

🖤 “They Couldn’t Deny What They Never Gave”
✊🏾 1. Many Black women rejected the idea that womanhood flows from w [...]

🖤 Black Women Never Needed White Womanhood to Be Whole
“All women stand in their own magnificent uniqueness—white women, [...]

💔 They’ve Been Ignoring Our Pain for Generations. But We Still Feel It.
On yesterday there was a non-subtle outcry on at least one social me [...]