Category: Teens
10 Clear Signs He Doesn’t Respect You (And What Survivors Must Know About the Programming That Keeps Us Silent)
updated from Sep 28, 2025
Survival is one type of strength. Heali [...]
I Have Spent Too Many Years Listening to Women and Children to Believe That Saying Something Makes It True
I have spent more than 30 years working with women and children who ha [...]
When Blackness Is Clear but Womanhood Becomes a Debate: A Question for Black Leaders
When you are a woman—an adult female human being who has overlapping d [...]
We Taught Gen Z About Consent. Did We Forget to Teach Them About Dignity?
I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them l [...]
Women Have Been Restricted for Safety for Generations. Why Does Restricting Men Sound So Radical?
There are renewed calls to ask a question American colleges have heard [...]
Victimization, Victimhood, and the Right to Keep Naming What Happened
Victimized vs. Victimization
Victimization describes an experience, a [...]
10 Lessons for Survivors from Melba Wilson’s Crossing the Boundary: Black Women Survive Incest
Melba Wilson wrote about something that Black women had certainly been [...]
The Brochure Says “We Take Your Safety Seriously.” But What Happens When a Survivor Actually Reports?
Institutions know how to write beautiful promises.“We take all rep [...]
When He Keeps Calling You Names: Name-Calling Can Be a Tactic of Abuse
Sometimes abuse announces itself with a threat.Sometimes it starts [...]
Things to Understand About the LSU Sexual Assault Case, and the Young Black Woman at the Center of It
There is a young Black woman at the center of the LSU sexual-assault s [...]