Political Action

Nurse Jennifer Melle was doing what few people would want to do: providing care — intimate, necessary, and skillful care — to a male prisoner convicted of child sexual abuse. …

Let’s tell the truth:Adults have power. Children don’t. Even the most vulnerable adult usually has more access to voice, resources, legal systems, and public platforms than a child does. So …

Black women don’t need a textbook to recognize fascism on this planet.We’ve felt it creeping under the door, showing up in church bulletins, classrooms, courtrooms, and dinner tables.We’ve survived it …

Why spend your precious energy trying to prove your humanity to systems, circles, or people who have already decided they don’t see you? That they don’t hear you. We believe …

A tremendous amount of work went into giving spouses legal recourse if they are assaulted by their spouse. Prior to this work, you couldn’t even bring it up in court …

The crisis of child predators isn’t going anywhere. Unless the adults change our harmful ways and change them right away. Because the pressure has always been placed especially on female …

That’s not deep thinking. That’s dressed-up racism. Let’s get right to it. There’s a question floating around that sounds intellectual, but it’s rooted in fear, ignorance, and historical amnesia: “Can …

1. We Are Often the First to Speak Up—and the Last to Be Protected Black women are frequently the ones raising the alarm about injustice. Yet when it comes time …

It amazes me that people call others “hateful” for speaking up for their right to safe boundaried spaces. You have no idea what another individual’s personal, mental, or physical health …

One of my  clients as an Independent Living Coordinator was a young white teenager working his very first job. His loving, protective, and attentive father came with him for our …