Category: Safety

🎶 Playlist: Songs That Speak the Truth — Domestic Violence & Survival
Sometimes music is the only thing brave enough to say what we’ve been [...]

12 Burdens Growing Up In Dysfunctional Families Teaches You to Accept-and Why We Must Reject Them
  In dysfunctional families and abusive relationships, women a [...]

Retro Report: The Domestic Violence Case That Turned Outrage Into Action
Generation X was not ready for this story but we needed it! Our Bo [...]
Inclusion Should Never Cost Girls Their Safety
April is child abuse awareness month.
When politicians twist the la [...]

IreneBritUSA: Female Fencer Who Took A Knee Speaks Out! Here’s What She Said to Male Athlete
https://wesurviveabuse.com/2025/03/stop-the-ahistorical-comparison [...]

The Truth About External Validation: What It Builds, It Can Destroy
The Queen is the most powerful piece on the chess board.
We all nee [...]

🎬 We’re Not Just Watching the Story—We’re Being Told Who We’re Allowed to Be
At We Survive Abuse, we talk a lot about truth, survival, and the powe [...]

Stop the Ahistorical Comparison: Jim Crow Was Violent, Girls’ Sports Does Not Have To Be
This is so cruel.
There’s a new talking point going around:That not a [...]
50 Times We Walked Past You—Our Hair Not to Your Liking, But We Were Dying Inside
You saw our hair.
Not our fear.Not our exhaustion.Not our grief.Not [...]
10 Ways Faux Concern About Cheek Swabs in Sports Does Not Protect Black Women—It Exploits Us
There’s been a growing outcry that cheek swabs to confirm male and f [...]

Green Flags: The Quiet Ways People Show You They’re Safe
💚 Green Flags in Other People🟢 They listen to understand, not just [...]
🛑 Tokenism Is Not Liberation: Why Hate Groups Tokenize Black Women
Some groups want our rhythm, our language, our beauty—but not our just [...]
Calling Out the Undermining of Women and Children’s Rights
"We are living in times so strange that truth sounds like conspira [...]

Life-Saving Advice for Black Women from The Positive Birth Coach
@thepositivebirthcoach Replying to @MVP I hope this helps, a guide for [...]
✊🏾 First, We Fight for Our Safety.
Then, We Fight for Our Story.(And We Are Tired.)
She survived.That sh [...]
The Times Change—And So Do We
"The only constant in life is change."-Heraclitus"No man ever [...]

Gaslighting with a Grin: What Covert Bullying Really Looks Like
What Is Covert Bullying?
The Abuse You Can’t Always See
Not all bull [...]

We Told You.
We told you.We warned you.We begged you to listen.
We tried to expl [...]
Ugandan British Nurse Punished for Calling Convicted Male Pedophile “Mr”
A Christian nurse in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is reporte [...]
“They’ll Be Raped Anyway” Is Not a Strategy—It’s Cowardly a Surrender
You say,“Well, women will be raped anyway…”as if that justifies handin [...]