Category: Safe Boundaried Spaces
Twelve Steps to Danger: How Alcoholics Anonymous Can Be a Playground for Violence-Prone Members (from ProPublica)
Karla Brada Mendez thought that she was getting a second chance on lif [...]
✊🏾 Since When Did a Man Saying He’s Changed Become a Gospel Truth?
She called me because I was serving as her victim advocate: His fam [...]
“Why Are Women Still Told to Have Faith in Men Who ‘Rebrand’ Themselves?”
“If his change requires your suffering to prove it, it isn’t change [...]
Why Are Women Still Expected to Risk Our Safety Just to Exercise?
Like so many Survivors of childhood sexual violence — and other form [...]
How Many Warnings Does It Take Before We Protect Women Like Sonya Massey?
You know what?
We can’t afford to look at these cases as “isolated in [...]
Why Are Women Told to Stay Calm About Things That Should Horrify Everyone?
When women, girls, and children talk about boundaries, it’s not hate s [...]
Who Protects the Women Whose Stories Don’t Trend
The work of women's safety, women's rights, women's liberation and wom [...]
💔 Why Didn’t I Leave Sooner?
Abuse is confusing.
It’s not constant — it shifts. Abusive peo [...]
🖤 Why Would Anyone Be Against Your Empowerment?
If someone has a problem with you being empowered, you have to ask [...]
You’re Not Asking for Perfection—You’re Asking for Respect: Recognizing a Common Deflection Tactic
🎭 The Tactic
When you call out something harmful—like antisemitism, r [...]