Something strange is happening in the advice women are being given. We are living through an extraordinary period of sophisticated fraud. Government agencies routinely warn us about romance scammers, fake …
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Less Policing Women’s Relationships. More Recognizing the Patterns Around Us.
If we can take our eyes off the individual women long enough to study the system around her. We might finally see who has been moving the walls. I don’t …
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Frequency Is Not Permission: The Dangerous Math We Do With Women and Girls
Frequency tells us how often harm happens. It does not tell us how much harm we should be willing to accept. I have finally found the words for something I …
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They’d Say You Asked For It: The Cost of a Woman’s Truth in a World That Loves a Lie
When you watch Thelma & Louise, you aren’t just watching a movie; you’re watching a masterclass in how society sets up a trap for a woman before she even opens …
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Who Decided Black Women Weren’t Feminine?
A movement does not become more compassionate by asking the vulnerable to become invisible. True justice makes more room without removing the people who were already standing there. Who …
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Maya Angelou Went Silent After Trauma. What Her Story Can Teach Us About Children Who Cannot Speak
There is something else we should remember when reading the childhood stories of Maya Angelou, or anyone else who survived something overwhelming Adults cannot travel backward in time and diagnose …
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When Someone Dies, We Start Asking Why
This post hurts like hell! I hate this so much. I saw her grow up. My child watched Bug’s Life on VHS. On repeat. Like little kids do. When it …
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Trauma Does Not Always Look Like Trauma
We tend to imagine trauma as someone crying when they remember something terrible. Sometimes it looks nothing like that. Sometimes trauma looks like anger. Sometimes it looks like working constantly …
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The Dangerous Person Is Always the Most “Interesting” Person in the Room
I will help build a culture where doing good is interesting again. There were so many morally bankrupt and inhumane comments about Jason Arday on social media. One of them …
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Risk Doesn’t Rise by Accident—What Happens When Care is Uneven for Black Women
Risk for harm grows where care is uneven. And for Black women, care has never been evenly given. Healthcare didn’t listen. Domestic violence services do not either. Where are Black …