Category: Political Action
Red Flags: Why Do Some People Refuse to Challenge Systems of Harm — and What Does that Reveal About Them?
Women’s safety movements grew from necessity — from the silences of la [...]
Why Are Women Told to Stay Calm About Things That Should Horrify Everyone?
When women, girls, and children talk about boundaries, it’s not hate s [...]
Who Protects the Women Whose Stories Don’t Trend
The work of women's safety, women's rights, women's liberation and wom [...]
🌿 You’re Not Required to March in Every Parade
Advocates are not required to be active in every cause.
As human bein [...]
🖤 Why Would Anyone Be Against Your Empowerment?
If someone has a problem with you being empowered, you have to ask [...]
Respect Without Surrender: When Rights Don’t Mean Access
The Foundation of True Respect
Respect is not ownership.And justice d [...]
Avoid Praising Harm: How Women Can Break the Cycle of Defending Those Who Do Damage
When women defend harmful behavior, they lose their sense of safety. L [...]
Why Leaders Who Excuse Abuse Can’t Build Safety—They Recreate Harm
When someone dismisses violence, mocks Survivors, or excuses abuse, th [...]
When Women Excuse Violence, Everyone Pays: The High Cost of Ignoring Abuse
In politics, too many women of privilege in America give violent men a [...]
💔 Understanding Marital Rape: Consent Still Matters
In too many parts of the world—and even in the minds of too many peopl [...]
#IAmJada: She Spoke Fire Back Into Her Name
They called it scandal.
But it was sacrifice.
A young girl’s tru [...]
Women Don’t Need Permission to Choose—We Need Power to Thrive
Every woman has the right to make her own choices. Full stop.She doesn [...]
✊🏾 When Policing Women Is Mistaken for Protecting Women
“When a woman goes hungry, more than her body suffers — her dignity, h [...]
🕊️ Who Makes Sure You Are Safe? ( w/video on Performance Artist MARINA ABRAMOVIC)
I LOVE art. Art teaches so many lessons about humanity.
Here's what [...]
When Leaders Forget Autonomy: A Reminder from Survivors Who’ve Had Enough
For Survivors, who are used to having their autonomy taken or dismisse [...]
Money, Morality, and Misunderstanding: Why Women Must See Clearly
Sometimes we align with people because we believe we share values.[...]
When the Help Hurts: Understanding Institutional Betrayal
There is a special kind of pain that comes when the place you turned t [...]
Even Warriors Need a Well: Faith, Feminism, and the Right to Refuel (w/affirmations)
People may mean well.But to insist that women fighting for jus [...]
Faith & Fire: Black Women Who Knew God and Justice Could Share the Same Space
They’ll tell you that you can’t be a woman of faith and a feminist.
T [...]