Category: Herstory/History
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 [...]
Part 2: Why I Resist Diluted Language
But self-knowledgeBut self-knowledgeThe reason I refuse dilu [...]
You Deserve SafetyâEven When Youâre Just Trying to Keep Going
Some of us were never told that we deserved to feel safe.W [...]
Tammi Terrell’s Story Reminds Us That Survival Is More Than Staying Alive
When people speak about Tammi Terrell, they often begi [...]
â Why I Resist Diluted Language Like âBirthing Peopleâ Part 1
Updated from November 2025
How hard is it to ju [...]
Juneteenth: Proof That Even Our Freedom Is Seen as âToo Much”
Juneteenth is not just a holiday. It is a mirror [...]
Lucy Diggs Slowe: She Protected Us in Silence So We Could One Day Speak
âBecause boundaried spaces donât build themselvesâsomeone has [...]
Using Michelle Obamaâs Image to Justify White Supremacy Is a Self-OwnâAnd a Betrayal
If you donât get out there and define yourself, youâll [...]
Why Moral Clarity Still Matters: Remembering the Victims of Jeffrey Dahmer
Connecting with political allies is harder than people a [...]
The Murder of Sakia Gunn: Why the World Looked Away, and Why Her Community Refused to Forget
It was just past midnight on a Sunday in May 2003 when fifteen [...]