Last names are deeply personal women who live through violence, abuse, or attack. It should remain that way. Personal. Even when she chooses to reveal some of her reasoning for …
Mental Wellness and Healing
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Womanism/FeminismAbuseAffirmationsBoundariesChild Abusechild safetyConsentCultureDECEPTIONDisability and Chronic IllnessDomestic AbuseDomestic ViolenceMental Wellness and HealingPowerRapeWomenWomen's Rights
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AbuseBoundariesDECEPTIONDisability and Chronic IllnessDomestic AbuseDomestic ViolenceDomesticViolenceFaith in StormsFaith/SpiritualityFemale Health and Safetyfemale health civil rightsLoving SafelyManipulationMental Wellness and HealingMental Wellness and HealthRED FLAGSRelationshipsSafetyTeen Dating ViolenceTRUTHWisdom
Why Truth Is What Finally Sets Survivors Free After Abuse
Truth is still in the business of setting people free. People often misunderstand what happens when a woman calls a domestic violence hotline or reaches out to an advocate. They …
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Surviving DailyFemale Health and Safetyfemale health civil rightsMental Wellness and HealingMisogynyOnline Abuse/PredatorsSafe Boundaried SpacesSafeguardingSafetySelf careSelf LoveSelf WorthTeensTRUTHWisdomWomanism/Feminism
Survivors Who Speak Up Become Light for the Rest of Us
Young people say: I don’t believe women and girls should have to be stronger. We ought to be fighting for a world that gives us all less to survive. I’m …
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AbuseBlack WomenBody safetyCampus violenceDomestic AbuseDomestic ViolenceFemale SafetyFeminism/WomanismMental Wellness and HealingMental Wellness and HealthMisogynyOnline Abuse/PredatorsRED FLAGSRelationshipsSafeguardingSafetyWomenWomen of Color
Red Flag Alert: Unhinged Game Fans
by TGJPby TGJPMan Fatally Shoots Wife And Critically Injures Stepdaughter After Fight Over ‘Monday Night Football’: Sheriff updated from 4/5/24 You know these people. They’re not on the team.They hold no stock …
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Womanism/FeminismDomestic ViolenceFemicideFGMHerstory/HistoryJustice is Authentic LoveLGBLoving SafelyManipulationMental healthMental Wellness and HealingMental Wellness and HealthMisogynyPolitical ActionRapeRED FLAGSSafetySelf careSelf LoveSelf WorthSPEAKSurviving DailyTRUTHVictims RightsViolationViolence Against WomenWomenYouth
No One Hands Women Safety. We Claim It, Protect It, and Pass It Forward.
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 …
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Womanism/FeminismFemale Health and Safetyfemale health civil rightsManipulationMental Wellness and HealingMental Wellness and HealthMisogynyMissing PersonsPolitical ActionPowerRapeRED FLAGSSafe Boundaried SpacesSPEAKSurviving DailyTRUTHVictims RightsViolationViolence Against Women
The Culture That Questions Women Before It Stops Men
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, …
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Women's RightsAbuse of PowerDECEPTIONDisability and Chronic IllnessFemale Health and Safetyfemale health civil rightsGlobal ConflictHealingManipulationMental Wellness and HealingMental Wellness and HealthMisogynyPolitical ActionPowerRapeRED FLAGSResources for victims/SurvivorsSafe Boundaried SpacessafegaurdingSafeguardingSelf LoveViolationViolence Against WomenWomanism/FeminismYouth
Women Are Not Required to Be Available
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. …
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Womanism/FeminismAbuse of PowerDECEPTIONDisabilityDisability and Chronic IllnessFemale Health and Safetyfemale health civil rightsFemicideIn the NewsJustice is Authentic LoveManipulationMental healthMental Wellness and HealingMental Wellness and HealthPolitical ActionPowerSafe Boundaried SpacesSurviving DailyTRUTHViolence Against Women
Our Mental Health Crisis is a Values Crisis
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 …
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Black WomenCommunityCultureFemale Health and SafetyLoving SafelyMental Wellness and HealingPolitical ActionPowerSurviving DailyWomanism/Feminism
What Does a Feminism That Includes You Actually Require?
It requires wholeness, not performance. A feminism that includes Black women does not ask us to arrive as fragments—carefully edited, softened, or stripped of context. It does not demand that …
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Abuse of PowerCelebrity/FameChild AbuseCoercionCommunityCultureDECEPTIONDomestic AbuseDomestic ViolenceFaith/SpiritualityFemale Health and Safetyfemale health civil rightsHealingHerstory/HistoryJustice is Authentic LoveManipulationMental healthMental Wellness and HealingMental Wellness and HealthPolitical ActionRapeRED FLAGSSafetySPEAKSurviving DailyTRUTHViolationviolenceWomanism/Feminism
When Belonging Breaks: Surviving in Truth When Cultures Defends Abusers
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 …