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A handful of men hold the feast, while women and darker-skinned people are told to survive on crumbs. Why are we accepting this as normal? For too long, we’ve watched …

The holidays carry a weight most people never see. For Survivors, gatherings can be a battlefield of memories, expectations, and unspoken wounds. Your voice may tremble with truth, or it …

These stories in the news around Black maternal health always hit home for me.  I have publicly shared my pregnancy ordeal and how horrible racism is in the medical community …

It’s wild how quickly the world silences women.The minute a woman says she’s uncomfortable, cautious, or afraid, people look at her like she’s exaggerating.Like she’s fragile.Like she’s imagining things. They …

Women are often encouraged to be kind, accommodating, flexible, and understanding — even when our safety is at stake. We are told to “be nice.” We are told not to …

Men should never expect a polite, dainty response when they violate women’s spaces.When you disrupt our safety, you activate our nervous systems — and we will respond. Don’t tell us …

A womanist does not enter this conversation as a spectator — we enter it as those who have lived inside the body that the world debates. Long before words like …

Don’t fall for it. Promise yourself that you will not fall for it. Don’t fall for the guilt traps, the twisting of truth, the smooth talk that tells you you’re …

When children are trapped in abusive homes, they’re not just harmed by the acts themselves. They’re trained through language. Words become cages. The same phrases that should nurture them are …

Words That Tried to Tame Women For generations, women have been shamed into labor — emotional, physical, spiritual — through language that sounds ordinary but carries violence underneath. These words …