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Courtney Stodden’s Lifetime Movie Exposes the Public Grooming of a Child Bride—and the Cruelty of Celebrity Culture
Abuse, Abuse of Power

Courtney Stodden’s Lifetime Movie Exposes the Public Grooming of a Child Bride—and the Cruelty of Celebrity Culture

Tonya GJ Prince September 29, 2025
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This Is Not Confusion. It Is Memory: Black Women, Language, and the Right to Self-Definition.
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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 specific, embodied, and carried forward through language. For many Black American [...]
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Janet Jackson Protected Eve—But Why Did She Have to? (video)

  updated from July 14 2025 This thing men do. "It's actually those men that are the real danger." "No, those are the men you really n [...]
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The Penthouse Lectures and the Ground Floor Reality
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The Penthouse Lectures and the Ground Floor Reality

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Friendly Fire: Why Are Women Funding Their Own Erasure?

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Beyond The Handmaid’s Tale: Understanding Lateral Betrayal
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Beyond The Handmaid’s Tale: Understanding Lateral Betrayal

When art holds up a mirror to the world, the reflection can be startling.   For years, people have watched stories like The Handmaid’ [...]
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Why I Resist Diluted Language: Part 3
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Why I Resist Diluted Language: Part 3

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The Illusion of Progress: Why Women Don’t Have “Spare Rights” to Burn
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Years ago I wrote that sometimes we women in the West move like we have so many rights that we have "spare rights" or some [...]
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Your ‘No’ Isn’t Treated the Same Everywhere
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Your ‘No’ Isn’t Treated the Same Everywhere

A long time ago, I dated a guy who facilitated recovery groups because he was a recovering addict. He was a respected professional who develop [...]
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Our History Teaches Us to Protect What Remains
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Our History Teaches Us to Protect What Remains

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How Many Vulnerable Men Will Be Placed in Women’s Prisons? (w/Statistics on Female Prisoners)
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How Many Vulnerable Men Will Be Placed in Women’s Prisons? (w/Statistics on Female Prisoners)

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