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🔊 The Right to Speak: What a Difference a Voice Makes
Advocates/Activists, Campus violence

🔊 The Right to Speak: What a Difference a Voice Makes

TGJP November 18, 2015
Updated for 2025Silence “You have the right to remain silent.” I [...]
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High Five From WESurvive: Lavon Morris Grant A Spiritual Miracle
Advocates/Activists, Doing Better

High Five From WESurvive: Lavon Morris Grant A Spiritual Miracle

TGJP November 4, 2015
In early 2002 or so a group of us Women of Color working in sexual and [...]
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The Benefit of Anger for Survivors: A Fire That Heals
Boundaries, Child sexual abuse

The Benefit of Anger for Survivors: A Fire That Heals

TGJP October 15, 2015
For too long, Survivors have been told to suppress their anger. “Be [...]
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High Five from WESurvive: 3 Crucial Life Lessons from Survivor LaQuisha Hall
Advocates/Activists, Child sexual abuse

High Five from WESurvive: 3 Crucial Life Lessons from Survivor LaQuisha Hall

TGJP October 9, 2015
Survivors are my favorite people.  Hands down, no contest. I love [...]
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What's In a Name: A Survivor of Child Sexual Abuse names Her Rapist
Child sexual abuse, Child sexual violence

What's In a Name: A Survivor of Child Sexual Abuse names Her Rapist

TGJP September 26, 2015
Did I tell y’all about that time that they printed a speech  I d [...]
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Letter from an Angry Survivor of Sexual Violence about this Bill Cosby Tragedy
Advocates/Activists, Celebrity/Fame

Letter from an Angry Survivor of Sexual Violence about this Bill Cosby Tragedy

TGJP July 7, 2015
7/7/2015Tonight I am angry.    That isn't my default setting t [...]
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5 Reasons Why the Silence Around Abuse Isn't Golden
Child sexual violence, Public Speaking

5 Reasons Why the Silence Around Abuse Isn't Golden

TGJP July 2, 2015
They say "silence is golden".  No, it isn't, it's tarni [...]
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On the Grounds That We Are Human:  Why Women and Girls Need Single-Sex Spaces
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On the Grounds That We Are Human: Why Women and Girls Need Single-Sex Spaces

You have chosen to lie  for a man you respect.   I have chosen to tell the truth  for all the women I've never met.   ~Aja the Poet updated fro [...]
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When Giving Up Women’s Rights Is Called Progress: 15 Questions Worth Asking
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When Giving Up Women’s Rights Is Called Progress: 15 Questions Worth Asking

 updated from March 23 2025There is a familiar pattern in history.Women organize. Women speak. Women document harm. Women build shelt [...]
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A Woman-Centered Truth About FGM We Cannot Abandon (w/list of resource organizations)
Female Health and Safety

A Woman-Centered Truth About FGM We Cannot Abandon (w/list of resource organizations)

updated from December 13, 2025 FGM victims’ fury as academics compare practice to cosmetic surgeryAny honest critique of global efforts t [...]
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When a Woman Is Talking About Risk Are We Busy Handing Out Character References?: 11 Signs
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When a Woman Is Talking About Risk Are We Busy Handing Out Character References?: 11 Signs

updated from April 21, 2026 Her Fear Is Not Yours to Edit The women and children whom society listens to the least suffer the most intense, [...]
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Power Dynamics and Homicide: Examining the Chiquita Tate Case
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Power Dynamics and Homicide: Examining the Chiquita Tate Case

This is a tragic ending to a beautiful and bright light that challenges a lot of myths about domestic violence only occurring in relations [...]
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12 Ways That We Rob Women—Then Judge Their Survival
Women's Rights

12 Ways That We Rob Women—Then Judge Their Survival

It is a contradiction to restrict women's opportunities, safety, or autonomy and then criticize the ways women adapt. If we want different outcomes, w [...]
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The Physical Reality of Trauma: Why Boundaries Aren’t Optional
Girls

The Physical Reality of Trauma: Why Boundaries Aren’t Optional

There is nothing abstract about the blood on the floor. The room could be a delivery room. A girl's restroom after school. A woman's restroom after [...]
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🚨 The Women Who Climbed the Ladder Are Now Pulling It Up Behind Them
Abuse of Power

🚨 The Women Who Climbed the Ladder Are Now Pulling It Up Behind Them

Truth does not become false because it becomes unpopular.We all slip into patterns where we forget to be grateful. For many people who prioritize [...]
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Ida B. Wells Was One of America’s Earliest Anti-Sexual-Violence Advocates. It’s Time We Said So.
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Ida B. Wells Was One of America’s Earliest Anti-Sexual-Violence Advocates. It’s Time We Said So.

One of the reasons I started this blog in the early 2000s was because of something I kept seeing after serving in many different roles within the move [...]
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24 Undeniable Ways Opening Women’s Spaces to Biological Males Threatens Female Rights
Civil Rights & Social Justice

24 Undeniable Ways Opening Women’s Spaces to Biological Males Threatens Female Rights

"This isn't a big deal. We have bigger issues." EXACTLY. The issues of women's and girls' safety, human rights, opportunities, and autonomy are a HUG [...]
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