Category: Safety

Less Policing Women’s Relationships. More Recognizing the Patterns Around Us.
If we can take our eyes off the individual women long enough to study [...]

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 [...]

Women Have Been Violently Punished for Telling the Truth for Centuries
I do not owe anyone a smaller truth so they can maintain a larger li [...]

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 [...]

WE Survive Abuse Book Club: The Quiet Zone
The Quiet Zone authored by Petal Kimberly SamuelThere is a kind of [...]

Trauma Does Not Always Look Like Trauma
We tend to imagine trauma as someone crying when they remember somethi [...]

The Dangerous Person Is Always the Most “Interesting” Person in the Room
I will help build a culture where doing good is interesting again.[...]

Risk Doesn’t Rise by Accident—What Happens When Care is Uneven for Black Women
Risk for harm grows where care is uneven.And for Black women, car [...]