Politics

There are cases that remind us why understanding domestic violence cannot be limited to advocates, shelter workers, police officers, or women who have already lived through it. Everybody needs to …

Which facts may another person deliberately falsify while seeking someone’s romantic or sexual consent, and at what point does society stop treating deception as clever self-presentation and start recognizing the …

There is a difference between allowing another human being freedom and requiring somebody else to participate in that person’s understanding of themselves. We blur those two things far too easily. …

Well, actually…they’ve been asking for help for awhile. At some point we as a global family can deal with why their cries have gone unheard, including the fact that larger …

This is suicide awareness month. Black people are being found dead and hung in 2026 under awfully suspicious circumstances. Two different terribly tragic truths running side by side. Why would …

Some people do not ask you to understand them. They ask you to stop understanding yourself. Women have historically been asked to perform enormous amounts of kindness: caregiving, smoothing conflict, …

 Harm does not always arrive announcing itself as hatred. Sometimes it comes smiling, agreeing with 80 percent of what you say, and spending the remaining 20 percent figuring out exactly …

What does political resistance look like when the movement that might have named your experience does not yet exist? What happens when you live a political identity before there is …

  Women are often asked to demonstrate competence while simultaneously reassuring everyone that their competence has not made them less pleasant. Just a reminder…….             …

Long before many people had language for what we now call ‘Black feminism’, a Black woman from Martinique was sitting in France thinking about Black women, race, culture, belonging and …