Herstory/History

(No matter how many awards, episodes, or characters say otherwise) 🎭 Television Is Entertainment—Not Protection TV is not systemic change. TV is not a shield from injustice. TV is not …

🧨 The Dangerous Myth: “We Were All Getting Along”   From the 1980s through the early 2000s, a comforting myth took hold: “We were united.”“There was harmony.”“Everyone was represented.” TV …

Many believe the 1980s to early 2000s were a time of racial harmony in America, especially within the women’s movement to end violence. But for Black, Indigenous, and other marginalized …

Black women don’t need a textbook to recognize fascism on this planet.We’ve felt it creeping under the door, showing up in church bulletins, classrooms, courtrooms, and dinner tables.We’ve survived it …

Why spend your precious energy trying to prove your humanity to systems, circles, or people who have already decided they don’t see you? That they don’t hear you. We believe …

A tremendous amount of work went into giving spouses legal recourse if they are assaulted by their spouse. Prior to this work, you couldn’t even bring it up in court …

The True Story Behind the Surgical Legacy Built on Black Women’s Pain Between 1845 and 1849, in Montgomery, Alabama, three young enslaved Black women—Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey—were subjected to brutal, …

The crisis of child predators isn’t going anywhere. Unless the adults change our harmful ways and change them right away. Because the pressure has always been placed especially on female …

🕯 The Parable of the Crooked Weaver Once, in a small village wrapped in forest and silence, there lived a skilled weaver named Marron. He was known far and wide …

Some people may see this clip of K. Michelle as just a moment. But we see history. Few dare to understand what it is like to come from a people—Black …