“Power borrowed from fear never lasts” There comes a time when your soul grows too heavy to carry the weight of someone else’s lies. At first, it felt like loyalty.Like …
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How Changing Language Around Sex is Used to Undermine Women in Courtrooms
We live in an age of shifting language.A time when even the most basic truths—like what it means to be a woman—are being rewritten, not by science or survival, but …
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If He Will Strangle You, He May Kill You
There are few acts more dangerous, more intimate, and more predictive of future lethal violence than this one:Strangulation. Let’s stop minimizing it.Let’s stop calling it “choking” like it’s some common …
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The Healing Isn’t in the Headlines. It’s in the Listening
There is a rhythm that the media loves:Shock. Outrage. Silence.A Survivor comes forward.The story catches fire.It lands in headlines, hashtags, and trending feeds.And then… it disappears. But healing doesn’t work …
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They Can’t Always Find the Right Words. But They Still Deserve to Be Heard.
Sometimes Survivors speak in whispers.Sometimes in long pauses, in shaking hands, in misplaced laughter.Sometimes… not at all. But let me tell you something that experience and sacred witness have taught …
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I Don’t Need Graphic Pain to Know We Survive
✍🏽 By Tonya GJ Prince | WeSurviveAbuse.com There’s a quiet knowing among many Survivors:We don’t need to be gutted open again to prove that we made it. These days, it …
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🛑 You Can’t Build Something Sacred on Disrespect
Let’s speak truth—because Survivors on healthy authentic healing journeys know this better than anyone: You cannot build healthy relationships with people or groups who do not respect boundaries. It doesn’t …
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🩸 They’ve Always Watched the Womb: A History of Obsession, Control & Harm w/video featuring Michelle Browder, Mothers of Gynecology
🩸 They’ve Always Watched the Womb: A History of Obsession, Control & Harm From the plantation to the present day, men—particularly those in power—have long been fascinated by female reproduction. …
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Missing Black Girls: Still Invisible
How dare you make laws and policies that make our girls less safe!-Tonya GJ Prince Every single year, thousands of Black girls vanish from our communities. Their faces barely flicker …
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They Know What They’re Doing: Why Abusers Target Neurodivergent People—Especially in Love
Let’s talk about something that far too often stays in the shadows: Abusers know what they’re doing.And many of them actively seek out people they believe are easier to manipulate, …