Category: Relationships

7 Reasons Black Women Must Know Our Worth
You see these movements getting furious with Black women for not askin [...]

A Woman Is Not a Community Resource: Her Freedom Includes the Right to Choose for Herself
Women did not struggle for generations to gain the right to choose onl [...]

Some of the Doors Women Walk Through Today Were Built by Women Who Needed Them First
Try not to measure an older woman’s courage by doors that had not been [...]

She Burned Her Writing for J.D. Salinger: Claire Douglas and the Cost of Disappearing for Love (podcast ep)
Before Claire Douglas became J.D. Salinger’s twenty-one-year-old wife, [...]

The Sylvia Plath Story Many Women Never Heard: Domestic Violence, Suicide and the Suffering We May Be Missing
I thought I knew Sylvia Plath. I swear I did. I mean how you "know" a [...]

The Default State is Autonomy: 10 Reasons You Never Owe a Justification for “No”
We’ve been conditioned to treat "no" like a legal de [...]

Please Stop Telling Survivors, “Men Wouldn’t Go That Far.” History Says Otherwise.
updated from March 24 2025 Interesting fact:
Before his [...]

Something About That Bothered Me: 10 Early Manipulation Tactics to Know
As an advocate, you find that women are often relieved to talk with so [...]

We Cannot Keep Telling Women to Be More Accommodating While Warning Them That Manipulation Is Becoming Harder to Detect
Something strange is happening in the advice women are being given.
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Survivor Rachel Williams Highlights Strangulation Timeline
updated from November 7, 2023Some advocates for women and girls ar [...]