Herstory/History

Let’s talk about the girls no one gives any energy to. Protecting women does not require fearing men. It requires refusing to make women responsible for managing dangerous ones. Feminism …

Beautiful Brazil. A country that, like many others, has a long way to go when it comes to how it treats the women and girls who are its citizens.  Women …

For centuries, men have claimed the authority to define what a woman is. From religious texts to medical books, from courtrooms to boardrooms, men have dictated the terms of womanhood—who …

Red flags aren’t just about individual people’s behavior. They are about systemic neglect, officials and leaders ignoring the community’s needs, systems demanding silence in the face of heightened danger, and …

Sometimes, it helps to get to know the women and unwritten rules that guided their lives……Here is a video on dating rules from back in the 1970s day. Survivor Affirmations: …

For a short season, my home state had a WNBA team, and I got to go and see a few games up close with my siblings. I was in my …

Women have historically organized around power differently. Again and again, women have sought power to create refuge rather than conquest, safety rather than supremacy, opportunity rather than control. This is …

We talk about domestic and sexual violence with so much more ease now-not enough but we are not who we used to be- it is easy to forget the road …

One of the reasons I started this blog in the early 2000s was because of something I kept seeing after serving in many different roles within the movement to end …

You have chosen to lie  for a man you respect.   I have chosen to tell the truth  for all the women I’ve never met.   ~Aja the Poet updated …