Category: Safe Boundaried Spaces

Weâre Done Paying the Toll for âAcceptanceâ
We are not what ignorance calls us. We are not who ignorance sa [...]

If the Mind Believes What It Hears Most â What Are We Teaching It About Safety?
Thereâs a reason children learn the alphabet through songs. Thereâs [...]

What Happens When Women Fully Stop Performing Labor For the Male Gaze?
Words That Tried to Tame Women For generations, women have been sha [...]

Black Women Have Always Spoken Truth to Power â and We Still Will
In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination ar [...]

đż Faith, Healing, and the Work of Safe People
People who support Survivorsâfrom all walks of lifeâshould know th [...]

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 [...]

âđŸ Since When Did a Man Saying Heâs Changed Become a Gospel Truth?
She called me because I was serving as her victim advocate: His fam [...]

âWhy Are Women Still Told to Have Faith in Men Who âRebrandâ Themselves?â
âIf his change requires your suffering to prove it, it isnât change [...]

Why Are Women Still Expected to Risk Our Safety Just to Exercise?
Like so many Survivors of childhood sexual violence â and other form [...]

How Many Warnings Does It Take Before We Protect Women Like Sonya Massey?
You know what?
We canât afford to look at these cases as âisolated in [...]