Category: Safe Boundaried Spaces
Complacency Around Violence and Abuse: A longtime foe against women and children
At some point, complacency feels like betrayal.
It is exhausting an [...]
Survivors Who Speak Up Become Light for the Rest of Us
Young people say: I don't believe women and girls should have to be st [...]
The Culture That Questions Women Before It Stops Men
Femicide.
We keep saying it.
“We can’t bring her back, but j [...]
Women Are Not Required to Be Available
No one could have predicted how this year would end.
It bent sh [...]
Access to Women Is Not a Male Human Right
There is something deeply revealing about the world we live in.
You c [...]
Our Mental Health Crisis is a Values Crisis
We have made a choice.
Not quietly.Not accidentally.Not without conse [...]
Before Social Media, Women Told Stories—Did We Forget How to Listen?
Before critique culture.Before hot takes.
Before performance li [...]
Why Are Black Women Always Told to “Educate” Others?
Because our knowledge is often treated as public property rather than [...]
Why Is Black Women’s Truth Treated as Disloyalty?
There is a name for what happens when Black women are pressured to aba [...]
The Performance of Ignorance: How Men Pretend Sexual Violence Is News.
There is a peculiar kind of amnesia that grips men whenever the subjec [...]
Prevent it-Trauma is Traumatizing.
This poster could not be more correct. You do not do this work without [...]
The Myth of Neutrality: Why Identity Blindness Fails Survivors Every Time
There’s a phrase people love to say when conversations get uncomfortab [...]
When Identity Becomes a Shield: Who We Protect When We Pretend Everyone Is Equal
The Lie We Tell to Stay Comfortable
People say:
“Rape is rape, i [...]
When Older Women Are Told to Give Until It Hurts
The internet will have you believe something very simple and very crue [...]
Megan Thee Stallion 101: You Don’t Break Me in Public and Expect Me to Heal in Silence
Why are people angry? I will tell you. This happens to nearly every vi [...]
When Technology Becomes a Weapon: What You Need to Know About Cyberstalking and Deepfake Abuse
People like to be casual about it, but cyberstalking is a crime.
Cy [...]
We Didn’t Come This Far for Crumbs
A handful of men hold the feast, while women and darker-skinned people [...]
Political Action Alert: Where Can Any of Us Afford to Go If Home is a Violent Space?
For years, people asked, “Why doesn’t she just leave?”
That que [...]
Holiday Boundaries: Your Voice, Your Choice, Your Healing
The holidays carry a weight most people never see.
For Survivors, [...]
Angels Need Rest Too: Why Demanding a Sanctuary Is an Act of Survival, Not Selfishness
Women, we are always there for everyone else.
This season, this THA [...]