Category: Safety

When Your Strength Makes Them Angry
Some people will try to make you feel like you did something wrong j [...]

🧩 The Price of Silence: Black Women, Coercive Control, and the Hidden Costs of “Unity”
There is a kind of violence that doesn’t leave bruises.A kind that hid [...]

When It’s Not Pride: 11 Ways Violence Against Black Women Hides Behind “Black Pride”
We lift up Black pride as sacred—a celebration of survival, brillian [...]

Black Pride Is Not a Mask for Violence
We talk a lot about Black pride.We wear it.We speak it.We teach it t [...]

🏛️ What Rural Women Need from Policymakers
My professional advocacy work in domestic and sexual violence began [...]

💔 Why It’s Harder: Unique Barriers Rural Women Face When Seeking Help for Abuse
When a woman living in a rural area makes the courageous decision to [...]

The Door Closes When You Choose Their Violence Over My Truth
(Including the violence you want me to stop talking about.)
There’s a [...]

Your Defense of Them Is a Betrayal of Me
Let’s say this out loud—for the ones still doubting themselves.For the [...]

HE Chose Violence
Blaming women is the usual default setting but if a man is violent, le [...]

Preserve the Woman. Protect the Fire.
When you finally realize that someone’s harmful behavior has more to d [...]