10 Lessons The Hate U Give Teaches Us About Seeing, Hearing, and Protecting Girls
The most dangerous thing adults can do to a child is not always hurting them directly. Sometimes it is failing to see them clearly. Sometimes it is hearing their…
The most dangerous thing adults can do to a child is not always hurting them directly. Sometimes it is failing to see them clearly. Sometimes it is hearing their…
Why won’t they say our names? In an era when nearly every issue has a spokesperson, why do so many women and girls feel unheard when it comes to their…
Is the conversation still about the concern, or has it become about the person who raised it? There are a lot of accounts online that are mostly female-oriented content.…
Tell me who I have to be to gain some reciprocity…. Ms. Lauryn Hill As kids, we used to complain about the guy who pulled our braids. The beads fell…
“Will a highly neutral parentage framework be sensitive enough to recognize unequal power, violence, coercion, reproductive abuse, and sexual assault?” If institutions are going to look women in the face…
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. She was coming back from…
updated from August 7 2025 Remember now, plenty of wives and children around the world are very nice to men who think nothing of harming them in an instant. As…
updated from March 28, 2025 This is so cruel. There’s a new talking point going around:That not allowing boys to compete against girls in sports is somehow the same as…
Someone is telling on themselves……. In Jim Crow America, Black people—especially Black women and girls—were forbidden from having boundaries: A Black woman couldn’t say no to a white man’s advances…
Sometimes music is the only thing brave enough to say what we’ve been through. This playlist brings together 11 songs across R&B, soul, pop, and a touch of country and…