Manipulation

I’m sorry. People talk as if women’s safety is something governments eventually “figure out,” like a policy glitch that just needs an update. History doesn’t tell that story. It tells …

Femicide. We keep saying it. “We can’t bring her back, but justice was served.” We say it after the trial. After the sentencing. After the cameras leave. And every time, …

No one could have predicted how this year would end. It bent sharply. Again and again. Just when people thought they understood the terrain, the road changed beneath their feet. …

There is something deeply revealing about the world we live in. You cannot rent a car without agreeing to terms….and a credit card. You cannot lease a home without stringent …

We have made a choice. Not quietly.Not accidentally.Not without consequence. We have chosen to be a nation that does not guarantee authentic and truthful mental health care around the clock.That …

“All they know about is slavery” Do we? Or is that all you heard before you stopped listening so people stopped sharing with you? Because there is too much more. …

There is a name for what happens when Black women are pressured to abandon our Blackness in order to be accepted as “real” women. Racial Gatekeeping of Womanhood. It shows …

Let me say this plainly, first and always: What Noel Stevens did was horrific.Shauna Tiaffay is the victim.Her children are victims.Nothing about this conversation excuses violence.Nothing shifts responsibility away from …

I get when some groups defend some aspects of abusers. I’ve slipped (more than once) and done it too. I’m a human. I still have a duty to push back …

This isn’t about a song but like most art, it offers life lessons. Jingle Bells” was written in 1857 by James Lord Pierpont, a white composer who worked in minstrel …