Power

“I get to treat you horribly because I have decided that you are less than me.” Power and control don’t always look the same.But they always speak the same language. …

That move is often about re-centering. When Black women name race and gender together, the response isn’t just disagreement—it’s anxiety about losing narrative control. Saying “misogyny is older” becomes a …

People closest to power. Belief, in our world, is not evenly distributed. It flows along familiar lines—toward those whose voices already sound “right,” whose language fits established norms, and whose …

It requires wholeness, not performance. A feminism that includes Black women does not ask us to arrive as fragments—carefully edited, softened, or stripped of context. It does not demand that …

There is a name for what happens when Black women are pressured to abandon our Blackness in order to be accepted as “real” women. Racial Gatekeeping of Womanhood. It shows …

These stories are unsettling. I do hope that male podcasters, influencers, and journalists are covering these stories and not just waiting for the stories that advance misogyny, racism, and other …

There’s a strange thing happening in our world today—especially online—where people want to argue about the words we use instead of facing the truth behind them. Take the word “dominate.” …

There’s a phrase people love to say when conversations get uncomfortable: “I don’t see gender, race, sexuality, or identity. I treat everyone the same.” It sounds enlightened. It sounds fair. …

Some of us didn’t need a courtroom to tell us that digital harm is real. We felt it in our bones the moment someone used our name, our picture, or …

Saying “Black woman” is not race discourse.It’s not divisive.It’s not inflammatory.It’s accuracy in the field of violence and abuse — a field that has avoided telling the truth for far …