Category: Surviving Daily
Gaslighting Isn’t Love: Red Flags Black Women Need to Name Out Loud — and Walk Away From
updated from April 7, 2023
Sometimes they try to make you feel like [...]
Safe Space LIVE: Trevor Noah Honors Black Women
The older you get, the more you appreciate the wind beneath your w [...]
Rosa Parks: A Stealth Strategist Against Deceit and Manipulators
updated from January 6, 2025 with new links and information
Let's be [...]
🔥 “Why Does My Safety Offend You?” — When Women Ask for Boundaries and Other Women Dare to Try to Shut Us Down
“Only human beings can look directly at something, have all the inform [...]
Complacency Around Violence and Abuse: A longtime foe against women and children
At some point, complacency feels like betrayal.
It is exhausting an [...]
Survivors Who Speak Up Become Light for the Rest of Us
Young people say: I don't believe women and girls should have to be st [...]
How People Lose Themselves: One Compromise at a Time
We don't do any of ourselves any favors when we believe that coercion, [...]
The Truth From Pam and Aunt Esther: Naming the Disrespect Women Were Taught To Ignore
There are men who speak to women with deep disrespect — regularly.
An [...]
Pam Taught Us Some Things: Why Tichina Arnold Always Deserves Our Love
I grew up in a generation that was outside.
Young people watching [...]
🌿Healing Without Being Pulled Into Someone Else’s Agenda
Survivors are not projects to be shaped.They are people who deserve sa [...]
No One Hands Women Safety. We Claim It, Protect It, and Pass It Forward.
I'm sorry.
People talk as if women’s safety is something government [...]
Give Yourself a Gift That Keeps You Moving Forward
Give yourself a gift going forward.
Not something wrapped in pa [...]
The Culture That Questions Women Before It Stops Men
Femicide.
We keep saying it.
“We can’t bring her back, but j [...]
Access to Women Is Not a Male Human Right
There is something deeply revealing about the world we live in.
You c [...]
Our Mental Health Crisis is a Values Crisis
We have made a choice.
Not quietly.Not accidentally.Not without conse [...]
Before Social Media, Women Told Stories—Did We Forget How to Listen?
Before critique culture.Before hot takes.
Before performance li [...]
Why Listening to Women’s Pain Feels Hard—And Why It Matters More Than We Admit
I was confused by my own exhaustion.
I had spent years doing what som [...]
Forced Sterilization Wasn’t a Mistake. It Was Misogyny and Racism Working Together.
"All they know about is slavery"
Do we? Or is that all you heard bef [...]
What Knowledge Are Black Women Assumed Not to Have?
Black women are often assumed not to know:
Our own history
[...]
Who Gets Believed Without Footnotes?
People closest to power.
Belief, in our world, is not evenly distribu [...]