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Category: Manipulation

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Red Flags in Relationships: Recognizing Silent Signals of Control
Abuse, Domestic Abuse

Red Flags in Relationships: Recognizing Silent Signals of Control

TGJP January 12, 2025
 updated from January 12 2025 Here is when I knew.   I was riding [...]
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Revisting the Silencing of Silenced Women and Girls: R Kelly
Abuse, Abuse of Power

Revisting the Silencing of Silenced Women and Girls: R Kelly

TGJP January 3, 2025
   When the groundbreaking documentary Surviving RKelly [...]
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Columbus Day: As Long as You Know What You Are Celebrating
DECEPTION, Female Health and Safety

Columbus Day: As Long as You Know What You Are Celebrating

TGJP October 14, 2024
    A letter from Michele de Cuneo,  Columbus’ shipmat [...]
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When Did You Decide That Female Human Beings Are Not Even Worthy of Having a Word to Describe Themselves?
Black Women, DECEPTION

When Did You Decide That Female Human Beings Are Not Even Worthy of Having a Word to Describe Themselves?

TGJP February 8, 2024
    For your consideration:  Female erasure is hardly a new [...]
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To the Misguided, Misdirected, Mislead, and Misinformed, about Child Sexual Abuse
Abuse, Abuse by Older Children

To the Misguided, Misdirected, Mislead, and Misinformed, about Child Sexual Abuse

TGJP June 9, 2023
Back in 2016 this post was inspired when a very famous celebrity [...]
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Gratitude to Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon
Art

Gratitude to Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon

  updated from February 1, 2025 Music is healing. Music is power. Music has the power to change the world.   On many, many, many a day [...]
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Boundaries: The Blueprint of Personal Power (featuring video from Alonna Elaine)
Boundaries

Boundaries: The Blueprint of Personal Power (featuring video from Alonna Elaine)

updated from May 4 2025 They will call it selfish.They will call it rude.They will call it unnecessary.But you know better. Boundaries are not wal [...]
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Celia: How an Enslaved Girl Continues to Inform Black Women’s Work to End Violence Against Women
Black Women

Celia: How an Enslaved Girl Continues to Inform Black Women’s Work to End Violence Against Women

Celia   updated from September 20 2023 1. (1855) Celia was a slave girl who was tried and executed for killing her enslaver after enduri [...]
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When Girls’ Boundaries Are Rebranded as “Hate” (featuring Boundary Setting video from Dr. Tracey Marks)
Body safety

When Girls’ Boundaries Are Rebranded as “Hate” (featuring Boundary Setting video from Dr. Tracey Marks)

updated from November 5, 2022 "You know good and well that a boundary never did a damn thing to you. But a male has every potential to AND be excus [...]
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12 Things It Is Not Women’s Job to Fix
affirmation

12 Things It Is Not Women’s Job to Fix

updated from July 11, 2025 — Especially When We’re Still Doing Most of the Work for Less Pay This piece honors the fact that women perform a [...]
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Does Naming Ourselves Hurt Anyone? No. Erasing Us Does.
Abuse of Power

Does Naming Ourselves Hurt Anyone? No. Erasing Us Does.

  updated from November 18 2025 If the harm is sex-specific, the language has to be sex-specific.Especially for Black women.Especially in mater [...]
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The Overlooked History of Black Disabled Lives: Survival, Misunderstanding, and Strength
Civil Rights & Social Justice

The Overlooked History of Black Disabled Lives: Survival, Misunderstanding, and Strength

As a Black woman who has struggled with a health condition that is limiting, and has worked in the professional serving capacity for people with disab [...]
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The Neuroscience of Political Tribalism | Why You Can’t Think Straight
Abuse

The Neuroscience of Political Tribalism | Why You Can’t Think Straight

You saw it too. I was watching clips from Jesse Jackson's homegoing service. Then all of a sudden, people who openly despised this man and ALL that [...]
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What Would It Look Like to Support Black Women Where They Actually Live?
Black Women

What Would It Look Like to Support Black Women Where They Actually Live?

Across social media and in political spaces, there is no shortage of advice directed at Black women. People encourage us to: speak more ab [...]
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10 Ways Society Trains Women to Doubt Their Own Safety Instincts
Body safety

10 Ways Society Trains Women to Doubt Their Own Safety Instincts

Many women can remember a moment when their instincts spoke clearly. A feeling in the stomach. A tightening in the chest. A quiet inner voice say [...]
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