A survey has found “deep mistrust” towards police from black women who have been victims of abuse. The findings from the charity Sistah Space show that almost all black women …
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What Happens When the Woman We Call Strong Tells Us She Was Hurt?
Listening tells you so much about where we really are as a society. A WNBA player spoke about her experience with sexual violence. The comments were not kind. There is …
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No Predator Has the Authority to Rename Violence As a “Right.”
updated from September 26 2025 Abusers call what they do to women and children by many names. They dress it up with lies, excuses, and false respectability. They label it …
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Rape Myth Acceptance: Somehow We Understand Vulnerability Until the Victim Is a Woman
There are things we understand perfectly well until sexual violence enters the conversation. We understand vulnerability perfectly well when property is involved Suppose someone gets drunk at a …
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When Giving Up Women’s Rights Is Called Progress: 15 Questions Worth Asking
updated from March 23 2025 There is a familiar pattern in history. Women organize. Women speak. Women document harm. Women build shelters, create opportunities, change laws, and fight for …
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Misogynist Gaslighting: The Reversal That Keeps Women Unsafe
Updated from June 8, 2025 No matter the group of men who disregard female humanity—who they like, who they don’t like, what they like- the tactics of misogynistic males remain …
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A Society Can Create More Opportunities for Connection. It Cannot Solve Rejection by Taking Away Women’s Right to Say No.
There is a conversation we need to have about loneliness, dating, sex, companionship and rejection. A grown one. Because loneliness is real. Wanting love is real. Wanting somebody to come …
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He Wants It. But Why Does She Owe It?
A man wanting access to a woman does not create a moral question for the woman. She can simply decline. At least we are getting closer to telling the truth …
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Male Access Supremacy: When Entitlement Disguises Itself as Equality
updated from July 31, 2025 The Space Was Never the Argument. The Entitlement Was. Survivor Affirmation Every woman deserves a space that stays hers. Not conditional. Not negotiable. Not something …
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She Deserved Help: What Kitty Genovese’s Story Still Teaches Us About Silence, Judgment, and the Cost of Looking Away
updated from May 1 2025 UPDATE: I Learned More About Kitty Genovese I originally published this post in May 2025. At the time, I repeated a version of the Kitty …