Relationships

As an advocate, you find that women are often relieved to talk with someone about the “red flags” we might ignore because we aren’t sure whether we’re being too harsh …

Something strange is happening in the advice women are being given. We are living through an extraordinary period of sophisticated fraud. Government agencies routinely warn us about romance scammers, fake …

updated from November 7, 2023 Some advocates for women and girls are not pleased with how we are talking about strangulation. Strangulation is often viewed as a very casual thing …

We spend a lot of time teaching women how to recognize danger. Learn the red flags. Watch for controlling behavior. Notice manipulation. Pay attention when someone refuses to respect your …

If we can take our eyes off the individual women long enough to study the system around her. We might finally see who has been moving the walls. I don’t …

I do not owe anyone a smaller truth so they can maintain a larger lie. Absolutely no woman deserves to be harmed because she spoke a truth somebody did not …

We tend to imagine trauma as someone crying when they remember something terrible. Sometimes it looks nothing like that. Sometimes trauma looks like anger. Sometimes it looks like working constantly …

Identity is not a shield. A label is not a character reference. A man can be kind in public and entitled in private. A man can understand oppression and still …

“People online kept saying, ‘Preferences are for pizza. Not people.’ I understood what they were trying to say. But something about that comparison didn’t sit right. My grandmothers never talked …

I don’t have a category called “cage” but maybe I should. Healthy marriages are inspiring and beautiful. But what if a woman figures out that a marriage isn’t healthy anymore? …