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Category: Manipulation

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How People Prompt or Lure Women to Prove Their Worth
Disability and Chronic Illness, Female Civil Rights

How People Prompt or Lure Women to Prove Their Worth

Tonya GJ Prince February 27, 2025
"Why doesn't she leave? Why did she go back?" We don't spend a lot [...]
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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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Her Name Is Mary Turner. Her Story Still Speaks.
Abuse

Her Name Is Mary Turner. Her Story Still Speaks.

We can’t have an honest conversation about why our grandmothers—and their mothers before them—often prescribed silence in the face of pain without ack [...]
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13 Things Black Men Could Be Using Their Mics to Talk About
Abuse of Power

13 Things Black Men Could Be Using Their Mics to Talk About

updated from November 25, 2025 Staying informed is an act of power. Because once you see how the system works, you stop begging for fairness and [...]
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We Don’t Close Doors Around Here: When Women’s Privacy Becomes Negotiable, Women Are in Danger (w/affirmations)
Abuse

We Don’t Close Doors Around Here: When Women’s Privacy Becomes Negotiable, Women Are in Danger (w/affirmations)

Living in the West is not what makes a woman safe. Privacy is not modesty theater. It is part of bodily safety. It is shield. We do not give th [...]
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Honoring Dr. Cerina Wanzer Fairfax in Virginia
Domestic Abuse

Honoring Dr. Cerina Wanzer Fairfax in Virginia

Virginia will lower flags Monday to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Cerina Wanzer Fairfax.  It appears that Virginia will begin taking a long over [...]
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Dehumanization Has Habits. So Does Liberation
Civil Rights & Social Justice

Dehumanization Has Habits. So Does Liberation

You fight dehumanization by refusing to let people become symbols, threats, jokes, rumors, or “problems” before they are recognized as human beings. [...]
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How to Fight Social Narcissism: What Racism and Relationship Narcissism Have in Common
Abuse of Power

How to Fight Social Narcissism: What Racism and Relationship Narcissism Have in Common

Some patterns are so familiar that our bodies recognize them before our mouths can explain them. A room gets quiet. A person says, “That never happene [...]
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott Was Not a Feel-Good Story. It Was a Power Manual.
Advocates/Activists

The Montgomery Bus Boycott Was Not a Feel-Good Story. It Was a Power Manual.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott teaches something deeper than “Rosa Parks sat down and people got mad.” That is the child’s version. The ad [...]
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Honoring Dr. Cerina Wanzer Fairfax in Virginia

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13 Things Black Men Could Be Using Their Mics to Talk About

Maleness Is Portable Power: 20 Reasons Women Are Still Asked to Move Over

Maleness Is Portable Power: 20 Reasons Women Are Still Asked to Move Over

How Abusers and Systems Use “You Have It Good” to Normalize Deprivation

How Abusers and Systems Use “You Have It Good” to Normalize Deprivation

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When Grieving Mothers Are Punished: Why Survivors and Pregnant Women Are Afraid to Ask for Help

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  • The Ally’s Creed: A New Standard for Protecting Our Children’s Joy and Safety
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RSS Survivor Affirmations

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  • The Black Performance Genius Behind America’s “Iconic” Jazz Style
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