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The Eye of the Child Sexual Abuse Survivor: A Black Man Takes the Mic
Advocates/Activists, Boys of Color

The Eye of the Child Sexual Abuse Survivor: A Black Man Takes the Mic

TGJP September 8, 2015
It is my honor to highlight the words of author Tremayne Moore a [...]
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Did You Hear the Joke about Blue Ivy, Brown Girls & Sexual Abuse? ME NEITHER
Celebrity/Fame, Child sexual abuse

Did You Hear the Joke about Blue Ivy, Brown Girls & Sexual Abuse? ME NEITHER

TGJP August 18, 2015
updated from August 2015 People often assume that if you’re bol [...]
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Letter from an Angry Survivor of Sexual Violence about this Bill Cosby Tragedy
Advocates/Activists, Celebrity/Fame

Letter from an Angry Survivor of Sexual Violence about this Bill Cosby Tragedy

TGJP July 7, 2015
7/7/2015 Tonight I am angry.    That isn't my default setting t [...]
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The Hideous Scars of Child Sexual Abuse: Self Doubt
Advocates/Activists, Child sexual abuse

The Hideous Scars of Child Sexual Abuse: Self Doubt

TGJP July 2, 2015
Self-doubt.  I think that one reason that some people can't unde [...]
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Mail Order Domestic Violence
Doing Better, Domestic Violence

Mail Order Domestic Violence

TGJP July 2, 2015
(revised from original post 7/1/15) After the RiceLila marrie [...]
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5 Reasons Why the Silence Around Abuse Isn't Golden
Child sexual violence, Public Speaking

5 Reasons Why the Silence Around Abuse Isn't Golden

TGJP July 2, 2015
They say "silence is golden".  No, it isn't, it's tarni [...]
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5 Reasons Why the Silence Around Abuse Isn't Golden
Child sexual violence, Public Speaking

5 Reasons Why the Silence Around Abuse Isn't Golden

TGJP July 2, 2015
They say "silence is golden".  No, it isn't, it's tarni [...]
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E. Lynn Harris: The Visionary Black Author Who Gave Us Stories We’d Never Seen—But Always Needed
Abuse

E. Lynn Harris: The Visionary Black Author Who Gave Us Stories We’d Never Seen—But Always Needed

Long before mainstream platforms embraced diverse stories, he was doing the work. Out of the trunk of his car. In beauty salons. With Black wo [...]
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Grief That Echoes: Honoring the Women Amiri Baraka Lost to Violence
Abuse

Grief That Echoes: Honoring the Women Amiri Baraka Lost to Violence

There are wounds that don’t stop bleeding just because the headlines fade.There are names that deserve to be spoken with reverence—not onl [...]
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12 Similarities Between Josephine Baker and Megan Thee Stallion
Black Women

12 Similarities Between Josephine Baker and Megan Thee Stallion

   Make your own choices. Live your own life. But when women see patterns through other women's lives, our eyesight becomes so much [...]
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Dr. Angella Dorothea Ferguson: The Woman Who Refused to Let Sickle Cell Patients Be Forgotten
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Dr. Angella Dorothea Ferguson: The Woman Who Refused to Let Sickle Cell Patients Be Forgotten

Calling Things by Their Proper Name: Honoring Dr. Angella Dorothea Ferguson “The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.” [...]
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Softness Is Beautiful. Safety Is Behavior.
Safety

Softness Is Beautiful. Safety Is Behavior.

  The other day, I saw a man putting on makeup. He was amazing. His hand was steady. His color choices were gorgeous. The transformati [...]
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We Are Not Trespassing: Black Disability and the Right to Simply Live
Disability and Chronic Illness

We Are Not Trespassing: Black Disability and the Right to Simply Live

We Are Not Trespassing. We Are Living. There is a kind of danger Black people know by instinct before we ever learn the words for it. It [...]
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The Subtle Signs a Man Likes Women’s Labor More Than Women Themselves
Civil Rights & Social Justice

The Subtle Signs a Man Likes Women’s Labor More Than Women Themselves

He only likes women in roles that benefit him.Mother. Lover. Helper. Muse. Nurse. Secretary. Emotional sponge. Cheerleader. Protector. O [...]
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Human Beings Were Enslaved Here in the US
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Human Beings Were Enslaved Here in the US

You have no idea how much that 1% and 2% who owned slaves matters to some people. My goodness. Anyway. People are still upset about t [...]
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Walking on Eggshells: Recognizing Peer-Driven Control Before It Burns You Out
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Walking on Eggshells: Recognizing Peer-Driven Control Before It Burns You Out

  People tend to move on and forget the people we lost during the seasons when deception and manipulation reigned...... So many, too ma [...]
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The Murder of Sakia Gunn: Why the World Looked Away, and Why Her Community Refused to Forget
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The Murder of Sakia Gunn: Why the World Looked Away, and Why Her Community Refused to Forget

It was just past midnight on a Sunday in May 2003 when fifteen-year-old Sakia Gunn stood at a Newark bus corner, laughing with her friends. Sh [...]
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