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How ‘WE the People’ Violate Women in Prison Today
Advocates/Activists, Civil Rights & Social Justice

How ‘WE the People’ Violate Women in Prison Today

TGJP May 30, 2022
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Fundraising Alert:  Child and Adolescent Protection Center
Advocates/Activists, Political Action

Fundraising Alert: Child and Adolescent Protection Center

TGJP May 7, 2022
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Ending the Brutality of Medical Racism Begins with Listening to Patients
Feminism/Womanism, Health

Ending the Brutality of Medical Racism Begins with Listening to Patients

TGJP May 2, 2022
 Choosing not to listen to and respond to the health needs of [...]
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Please Say Something to Help End Black Femicide
Femicide, Health

Please Say Something to Help End Black Femicide

TGJP April 13, 2022
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Women in Prison: Tomiekia Johnson Story
Black Women, Female Safety

Women in Prison: Tomiekia Johnson Story

TGJP March 21, 2022
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People With Opinions Like Lauren Boebert Are the Reason We Need to Pass the Crown Act
Black Women, Feminism/Womanism

People With Opinions Like Lauren Boebert Are the Reason We Need to Pass the Crown Act

TGJP March 21, 2022
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Period Poverty in the United States
Body safety, Female Health

Period Poverty in the United States

TGJP March 20, 2022
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🖤 12 Ways Black Women Are Harmed When Men Weaponize Oppressive Systems (video & audio)
Audio/Podcast

🖤 12 Ways Black Women Are Harmed When Men Weaponize Oppressive Systems (video & audio)

🖤 1. Demanding Grace While Denying Ours Black women are often expected to extend endless empathy, understanding, and forgiveness—especially to Black [...]
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Tina Turner Survived Through Hell and NOTHING About That is Funny
Black Women

Tina Turner Survived Through Hell and NOTHING About That is Funny

updated from November 8 2024 elink.io | See Original [...]
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10 Clear Signs He Doesn’t Respect You (And What Survivors Must Know About the Programming That Keeps Us Silent)
Womanism/Feminism

10 Clear Signs He Doesn’t Respect You (And What Survivors Must Know About the Programming That Keeps Us Silent)

 updated from Sep 28, 2025  Survival is one type of strength. Healing is another. We heal the things we never should have had to survive in the fir [...]
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Stop Shaming Women for Protecting Themselves
Abuse

Stop Shaming Women for Protecting Themselves

updated from September 24, 2025 Too often, when a woman dares to speak up about her own safety needs, she is shamed. Other women tell her she’s “over [...]
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When Blackness Is Clear but Womanhood Becomes a Debate: A Question for Black Leaders
Abuse

When Blackness Is Clear but Womanhood Becomes a Debate: A Question for Black Leaders

When you are a woman—an adult female human being who has overlapping disabilities that all intersect with being a woman—it gets extremely challenging [...]
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Growing Up as a Girl: What Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2017 Controversy Confirmed for Me About Women’s Voices
Girls

Growing Up as a Girl: What Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2017 Controversy Confirmed for Me About Women’s Voices

If someone can convince you that speaking about mistreatment is worse than the mistreatment itself, they have found a powerful way to protect those re [...]
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I Have Spent Too Many Years Listening to Women and Children to Believe That Saying Something Makes It True
Abuse

I Have Spent Too Many Years Listening to Women and Children to Believe That Saying Something Makes It True

I have spent more than 30 years working with women and children who have experienced abuse. And one of the things that experience has taught me is tha [...]
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Women Are Human Beings Outside of Their Relationships With Males
DECEPTION

Women Are Human Beings Outside of Their Relationships With Males

12 ways women are pressured, persuaded, and sometimes punished for refusing to organize their lives around men. Women are human beings in our own rig [...]
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Black Women Have Carried the Community Long Enough. When Will OUR Safety Become a Priority?
Black Women

Black Women Have Carried the Community Long Enough. When Will OUR Safety Become a Priority?

If your vision of justice requires Black women to accept more danger, you have not finished thinking about justice. When Black women ask to be protec [...]
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Sherrie Laurie Fought to Keep an Alaska Women’s Shelter Safe. Why Are Women Still Being Asked to Explain Their Need for Safety?
Advocates/Activists

Sherrie Laurie Fought to Keep an Alaska Women’s Shelter Safe. Why Are Women Still Being Asked to Explain Their Need for Safety?

I don't think people understand that working in a women's shelter means keeping others, including children, safe.There is a woman in Alaska named [...]
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