Old habits die hard. Changing laws is often easier than changing hearts and minds. For generations, many women did not have full freedom to choose their own relationships. Marriage was …
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✋🏽10 Ways Men Have Tried to Define Womanhood (w/audio)
updated from April 18, 2025 In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism. -Shirley Chisholm …..(don’t ever let anyone tell you …
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“Prove You’re Really With Us”: When Allyship Is Measured in Access to Your Body
A good, strong boundary might save your life one day. Where is She? She joined the group because she believed in what it stood for. The people were warm, the …
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The Gate That Didn’t Trust Anyone (podcast episode)
The Gate That Didn’t Trust Anyone At first glance, it’s just an old wooden gate.It squeaks when it opens. It always swings shut. It stands quietly between a flourishing garden …
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10 Ways Faux Concern About Cheek Swabs in Sports Does Not Protect Black Women—It Exploits Us
updated from March 27, 2025 It is an age-old, exhausting pattern: expecting Black women to absorb the impact, soothe, cushion, and hold space for men and male biology, even at …
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10 Lessons The Color Purple Teaches Women About Hope, Discernment, and Trusting What You See
updated from February 15 2026 One of the hardest lessons many women learn is this: Love does not require you to ignore what your eyes, your body, and your …
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10 Lessons The Hate U Give Teaches Us About Seeing, Hearing, and Protecting Girls
The most dangerous thing adults can do to a child is not always hurting them directly. Sometimes it is failing to see them clearly. Sometimes it is hearing their …
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Shame Has Never Been a Substitute for Justice
I deeply despise stories that depict women finding their way through to the other side of sex work or a season of promiscuity as being synonymous with change for the …
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You Deserve Safety—Even When You’re Just Trying to Keep Going
Some of us were never told that we deserved to feel safe.We were told to keep going.To be strong.To not make a scene.To forgive.To forget.To move on. So we did.We …
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Every Solution Was Rejected Because Access Was the Goal: Understanding Forced Access, Coercion, and Why So Many Women Feel Pressured to Explain Themselves
A woman asks for safety. Everyone else asks for evidence. 🌿 Sometimes a woman is not asking for much. She is asking for rest. She is asking for privacy. …