There is something deeply troubling about watching a documentary about murdered women and realizing how many of the dangers they faced extend far beyond the places where they worked. Oxygen’s …
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Miss Evers’ Boys: Not Everyone Who Helps You Feel Comfortable Is Helping You Stay Safe
The Survival Lesson in Miss Evers’ Boys One of the hardest lessons we learn about human behavior is that people don’t have to seem evil to participate in something harmful. …
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We Followed Farrah Fawcett. Then The Burning Bed Showed Us a Horror That Was Happening in Real Homes.
updated from April 4 2025 Generation X was not ready for this story, but we needed it! Our Boomer parents were not ready either, but they most definitely needed …
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A Book and Film I Recommend: Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Another book from my personal shelf… Some books stay with you long after you’ve finished reading them. Bastard Out of Carolina (1992) is one of those books. But I want …
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Love and Danger Are Not Opposites: 10 Things Reasonable Doubt on Hulu Gets So Right About Women, Love, and Harm
I watched Season 2 of Reasonable Doubt with two sets of eyes. I watched as a viewer who wanted a good story. But I also watched as an advocate who …
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He Had Threatened Her Before: 10 Survivor Lessons from LaVon Morris-Grant’s Whom Shall I Fear
I saw this amazing woman speak at a conference, bought her book at a table there, and finished it in one night. Great book. LaVon Morris-Grant survived what could easily …
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10 Lessons for Survivors from Melba Wilson’s Crossing the Boundary: Black Women Survive Incest
Melba Wilson wrote about something that Black women had certainly been living but had rarely been given room to discuss publicly: incest and childhood sexual abuse inside Black families. Crossing …
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10 Lessons from Gordon Braxton’s Empowering Black Boys to Challenge Rape Culture
Gordon Braxton begins Empowering Black Boys to Challenge Rape Culture with an admission that should make adults stop and think. He was already in his third year of college before …
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When “Protecting Children” Means Removing a Book About a Child Who Was Sexually Abused
“History, despite Its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, But if faced with courage, Need not be lived again.” —Maya Angelou “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” was the #3 …
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Before You Put Up the House: What Mattie Michael Taught Us About the Way Women Love
Retracing Mattie Michael’s Footsteps: Sometimes We Have to Ask Why We Love the Way We Love There are women we meet in stories who stay with us because we recognize …