Self Love

“Because boundaried spaces don’t build themselves—someone has to brave the silence first.”[WeSurviveAbuse.com] Most people will tell you Lucy Diggs Slowe was a tennis champion.That she was the first Dean of …

  If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others. -Michelle Obama (Why Black women must speak for ourselves, gatekeep our image, …

Where coercion is the law, truth cannot live. When the rules are written to force silence,to demand submission,to prioritize appearances over reality—truth gasps for air. Truth withers.Truth is hunted. Survivors …

updated from April 19, 2025 There is a battle still being fought—quietly, daily, in the hearts, homes, and conversations of women across the world. A battle for a basic, sacred …

updated from August 7 2025 Remember now, plenty of wives and children around the world are very nice to men who think nothing of harming them in an instant. As …

Civil rights victories were not born from scattered attention. They were born from sacred focus. The lesson of the lunch counters, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, …

And do not use Black people’s current struggle as a cloak for taking from women. Black women know both histories too well to be fooled by that. Black women are …

Some patterns are so familiar that our bodies recognize them before our mouths can explain them. A room gets quiet. A person says, “That never happened.” A politician says, “It …

You ought to be thankful for the little things. But little things are all you seem to give. Janet Jackson| What Have You Done For Me Lately Gratitude is something …

“Being asked to ignore degradation is not an invitation to be strong. It is an invitation to disappear. And you were never meant to disappear.” For Survivors, language is never …