Category: Safeguarding
10 Dangerous Beliefs That Have Harmed Women Around the World
updated from April 8 2025
Some lies don’t look like lies.They wear [...]
Something About That Bothered Me: 10 Early Manipulation Tactics to Know
As an advocate, you find that women are often relieved to talk with so [...]
We Cannot Keep Telling Women to Be More Accommodating While Warning Them That Manipulation Is Becoming Harder to Detect
Something strange is happening in the advice women are being given.
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Before You Can Recognize Safety, Maybe You Need to Know What Safety Feels Like
We spend a lot of time teaching women how to recognize danger. Learn t [...]
When Men Encourage Boundary Violations, Women Pay the Price
updated from June 7 2025
Why It’s Wrong—And Sometimes Criminal—for Me [...]
IF “We” Are Standing Against the Killing of Children, Women Would Like to See That Principle Everywhere
Sometimes men speak as though women are surprised when men take a stro [...]
They Knew Her Face. In 1997, Waris Dirie Made Them Hear Her Story.
In 1997, Waris Dirie did something that deserves to be remembered as a [...]
When the Mask Matters More Than the Truth, Survivors Are Pushed to Disappear
There is a reason people cling so tightly to labels when harm is expos [...]
Trauma Does Not Always Look Like Trauma
We tend to imagine trauma as someone crying when they remember somethi [...]
10 Women Who Paid With Their Lives While Fighting for Women’s Freedom
We were taught what women won. We weren't always taught what women pai [...]