Category: TRUTH
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 Stra [...]
🌿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 [...]
20 Affirmations and A Note for Those Who Feel Troubled by What They’re Seeing.
Until we choose to have honest, difficult conversations about sexual v [...]
Our Mental Health Crisis is a Values Crisis
We have made a choice.
Not quietly.Not accidentally.Not without conse [...]
When Power and Control Speaks, It Uses the Same Language
"I get to treat you horribly because I have decided that you are less [...]
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 [...]
What Knowledge Are Black Women Assumed Not to Have?
Black women are often assumed not to know:
Our own history
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Who Gets Believed Without Footnotes?
People closest to power.
Belief, in our world, is not evenly distribu [...]
Why Are Black Women Always Told to “Educate” Others?
Because our knowledge is often treated as public property rather than [...]
Truth Over Tropes in True Crime Storytelling
Let me say this plainly, first and always:
What Noel Stevens did was [...]
When Belonging Breaks: Surviving in Truth When Cultures Defends Abusers
I get when some groups defend some aspects of abusers. I've slipped ( [...]
Jingle Bells Too: When People Pretend the Story Ended at “Slavery Ended”
This isn't about a song but like most art, it offers life lessons.
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The Performance of Ignorance: How Men Pretend Sexual Violence Is News.
There is a peculiar kind of amnesia that grips men whenever the subjec [...]