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Grooming by Environment: When the System Softens the Ground for Abuse
Abuse, Abuse of Power

Grooming by Environment: When the System Softens the Ground for Abuse

Tonya GJ Prince June 26, 2025
When most people hear the word grooming, they imagine a single predato [...]
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“She Was No Angel” — But What If She Was Hurting?
Abuse, Disability and Chronic Illness

“She Was No Angel” — But What If She Was Hurting?

Tonya GJ Prince June 4, 2025
People say it like a verdict. “She was no angel.” But I’ve sat acr [...]
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The Disposability of the “Wrong” Women: A Call to Conscience (w/Affirmations)
Abuse, Affirmations

The Disposability of the “Wrong” Women: A Call to Conscience (w/Affirmations)

Tonya GJ Prince April 25, 2025
There is a silence that wraps itself around certain women like a shrou [...]
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No More Empty Promises: What It Really Means to Support Prostituted Persons
Abuse, Advocates/Activists

No More Empty Promises: What It Really Means to Support Prostituted Persons

Tonya GJ Prince March 4, 2025
Supporting Prostituted Persons Means More Than Just Words "Shaming [...]
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Why Get Angry About Women and Girls Fighting for Safety and Equality?
Feminism/Womanism, Safe Boundaried Spaces

Why Get Angry About Women and Girls Fighting for Safety and Equality?

TGJP February 3, 2025
The only people who ever get scolded for protecting their right to saf [...]
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Domestic Abuse And Suicide Prevention: How To Help A Loved One
Domestic Violence, Healing

Domestic Abuse And Suicide Prevention: How To Help A Loved One

TGJP October 29, 2016
 Heads up! This post comes from Michelle Peterson from Rec [...]
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Survivor Rachel Williams Highlights Strangulation Timeline
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Survivor Rachel Williams Highlights Strangulation Timeline

updated from November 7, 2023Some advocates for women and girls are not pleased with how we are talking about strangulation. Strangulation is ofte [...]
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When Men Encourage Boundary Violations, Women Pay the Price
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When Men Encourage Boundary Violations, Women Pay the Price

updated from June 7 2025 Why It’s Wrong—And Sometimes Criminal—for Men to Overrule a Woman’s “No” In every corner of society—online and offline—ther [...]
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Women Are Not a Feeling. We Are Not Yours to Define.
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Women Are Not a Feeling. We Are Not Yours to Define.

originally published in 2025 There is a dangerous lie being whispered and shouted in this world:That a woman is a feeling.That our existence—our li [...]
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An Unsung GOAT of Women’s Sports: Patsy Mink
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An Unsung GOAT of Women’s Sports: Patsy Mink

   updated from April 19 2024 If you're a female athlete, you owe your opportunities and career (if you have/had one) to this woma [...]
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Women Have Been Violently Punished for Telling the Truth for Centuries
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Women Have Been Violently Punished for Telling the Truth for Centuries

I do not owe anyone a smaller truth so they can maintain a larger lie. Absolutely no woman deserves to be harmed because she spoke a truth somebody [...]
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They Knew Her Face. In 1997, Waris Dirie Made Them Hear Her Story.
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They Knew Her Face. In 1997, Waris Dirie Made Them Hear Her Story.

In 1997, Waris Dirie did something that deserves to be remembered as an act of extraordinary courage. She spoke.She was already an internationally [...]
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Katoucha Niane: Her Beauty Made Headlines. Her Courage Deserves History.

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IF “We” Are Standing Against the Killing of Children, Women Would Like to See That Principle Everywhere
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IF “We” Are Standing Against the Killing of Children, Women Would Like to See That Principle Everywhere

Sometimes men speak as though women are surprised when men take a strong moral position about the death of children, particularly in conversations abo [...]
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Before They Called It Women’s Rights: 7 Ways Black Women in Colonial Peru Were Already Claiming Power
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Before They Called It Women’s Rights: 7 Ways Black Women in Colonial Peru Were Already Claiming Power

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