Mental Wellness and Health

We tend to imagine trauma as someone crying when they remember something terrible. Sometimes it looks nothing like that. Sometimes trauma looks like anger. Sometimes it looks like working constantly …

updated from February 2026 “If your confidence turns out to be misplaced, what protections exist for the people expected to absorb the consequences?” When certainty replaces preparation We have all …

updated from March 11 2025 We can respect individuals while remaining honest about patterns. Those two things are not enemies. We cannot fix what we refuse to face. And when …

Dating is not a promise of access. It is a process of discovering mutual interest, compatibility, and trust. Understanding rejection is part of building safer relationships. A healthy understanding of …

updated from June 9. 2025 It’s so tricky out here these days… Let’s make something abundantly clear: Being an ally to a group, a cause, or a community does not …

updated from December 13, 2025 FGM victims’ fury as academics compare practice to cosmetic surgery Any honest critique of global efforts to address female genital mutilation must begin here: Girls’ …

updated from November 18 2024 Helping a woman put herself first becomes much harder when the person hurting her repeatedly threatens to end his life. He may say: “I cannot …

I deeply despise stories that depict women finding their way through to the other side of sex work or a season of promiscuity as being synonymous with change for the …

Some of us were never told that we deserved to feel safe.We were told to keep going.To be strong.To not make a scene.To forgive.To forget.To move on. So we did.We …

  Updated from November 2025 How hard is it to just say “mothers and…..?”   In 2024, Black women had a maternal mortality rate of 44.8 deaths per 100,000 live …