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One thing about getting older and living through things is that you get to learn. If you choose to anyway.  Sometimes you learn lessons you never wanted to learn in …

At first glance, the story of Marcia Johnson can produce a very simple conclusion. A nonprofit dedicated to helping poor people posted Samuel Scott’s $5,000 bail after he had been …

Retracing Mattie Michael’s Footsteps: Sometimes We Have to Ask Why We Love the Way We Love There are women we meet in stories who stay with us because we recognize …

updated from March 24 2025   Interesting fact: Before his murders were discovered, serial killer Ted Bundy volunteered at a suicide crisis hotline in Seattle called the Seattle Crisis Clinic in 1971. The …

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 …

Every time I swallowed the truth, someone else got fed. Fed with power.Fed with protection.Fed with the benefit of the doubt. But it wasn’t me. 🗣️ Silence Is Not Neutral …

Survivors of violence—whether in war zones or in personal life—often face silencing first. Before the bruise,before the strike,before the world sees what happened,there is a quiet act of control: “Don’t …

Let’s talk about something a lot of Survivors don’t even know has a name—but once you see it, you can’t unsee it. It’s called future faking.And it’s one of the …

There comes a time in the life of every Survivor, every truth-teller, every woman who’s been underestimated, overlooked, or left to fend for herself—when she must look within and say: …

Let’s talk about it. When a woman is harmed—physically, emotionally, spiritually—one of the most common things we hear is: “I told her.”“I warned her.”“She didn’t listen.” And just like that, …