Category: Self Worth
When Your Strength Makes Them Angry
Some people will try to make you feel like you did something wrong j [...]
𧊠The Price of Silence: Black Women, Coercive Control, and the Hidden Costs of “Unity”
There is a kind of violence that doesnât leave bruises.A kind that hid [...]
đ¨ Listen Closely. Believe Them.
Too many people overlook this. We want to believe that people are be [...]
When Itâs Not Pride: 11 Ways Violence Against Black Women Hides Behind âBlack Prideâ
We lift up Black pride as sacredâa 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 [...]
đ¤ 12 Ways Black Women Are Harmed When Men Weaponize Oppressive Systems
đ¤ 1. Demanding Grace While Denying Ours
Black women are often expecte [...]
She Caught the Girls Before They Fell: Victoria Earle Matthews and the War Against Trafficking (1861â1907)
⨠10 Incredible Facts About Victoria Earle Matthews
She Was Bor [...]
The Door Closes When You Choose Their Violence Over My Truth
(Including the violence you want me to stop talking about.)
Thereâs a [...]
Your Defense of Them Is a Betrayal of Me
Letâs say this out loudâfor the ones still doubting themselves.For the [...]
Start Your Own, Even If Itâs Small. Because Truth Needs a Home.
Letâs tell the truth that so many are scared to say:
They keep claimi [...]
Preserve the Woman. Protect the Fire.
When you finally realize that someoneâs harmful behavior has more to d [...]
We Do Not Have the Privilege of Forgetting. But the World Wants Us To.
Every single day, women are surviving things that many refuse to name. [...]
She Wasnât Weak. He Was Dishonest.
We need to talk about the way society punishes women for being manipul [...]
What Is Spiritual Violence? And Why We Must Talk About It
âIf your faith doesnât let you cry, rage, rest, or leave the places [...]
Why Must We Carry Everyone? The Heavy Expectation Placed on Black Womenâs Healing
She wasnât just expected to heal. She was expected to heal everyone [...]
African Women Will Not Be Silenced: How the Continent is Rising Against Gender-Based Violence
"If the lion does not tell her story, the hunter will. [...]
Kenyan Women Refuse to Be Silenced: The Fight for Safety, Dignity, and Justice
There is a roaring fire rising across Kenyaâlit by the courage of wo [...]
Victim-Blaming Is Enabling Abuse
Letâs name it plain:Victim-blaming doesnât protect anyone. It protec [...]
We Didnât Come Here to Be Palatable
We did not come here to be pleasant.We did not come here to repeat w [...]
Autonomy Is Not Teflon
Autonomy is powerful.But it is not a shield.Not in this world.
A woma [...]