Safeguarding

updated from March 24 2025   Interesting fact: Before his murders were discovered, serial killer Ted Bundy volunteered at a suicide crisis hotline in Seattle called the Seattle Crisis Clinic in 1971. The …

updated from June 3 2025 Let’s name this for what it is: When politicians, media figures, or public influencers call women “hateful” for expressing concerns about our safety, they are …

  updated from April 8 2025 Some lies don’t look like lies.They wear the clothing of “tradition,” “culture,” “love,” or “femininity.”But if you look closer, you’ll see the bruises they …

As an advocate, you find that women are often relieved to talk with someone about the “red flags” we might ignore because we aren’t sure whether we’re being too harsh …

Something strange is happening in the advice women are being given. We are living through an extraordinary period of sophisticated fraud. Government agencies routinely warn us about romance scammers, fake …

We spend a lot of time teaching women how to recognize danger. Learn the red flags. Watch for controlling behavior. Notice manipulation. Pay attention when someone refuses to respect your …

updated from June 7 2025 Why It’s Wrong—And Sometimes Criminal—for Men to Overrule a Woman’s “No” In every corner of society—online and offline—there’s a dangerous pattern we must name: Men …

Sometimes men speak as though women are surprised when men take a strong moral position about the death of children, particularly in conversations about abortion or a mother who kills …

In 1997, Waris Dirie did something that deserves to be remembered as an act of extraordinary courage. She spoke. She was already an internationally known model. People knew her face. …

There is a reason people cling so tightly to labels when harm is exposed. Often, it is not confusion. It is fear. Fear of admitting they were misled. Fear of …