TRUTH

This series is about women asking pointed questions about our health, privacy, and safety, and expecting substantive answers. Who does this decision affect? What protections are in place? Who takes …

Sometimes a woman stops explaining because she has learned what happens when she speaks. She raises a concern, and suddenly the conversation is about her attitude. She asks for privacy, …

The pattern here is redirecting scrutiny from the harm to the harmed person’s language, with polite wording making the pressure appear reasonable. Some of the most disrespectful things women receive …

I’ll tell you this. What I admire about J.K. Rowling is that, no matter how often people threaten or slur her, she won’t back down. No matter how much wealth …

There is a misunderstanding about race that we need to clear up. Somehow, the person who speaks openly about racism can become the person accused of creating division. But speaking …

 updated from Sep 28, 2025  Survival is one type of strength. Healing is another. We heal the things we never should have had to survive in the first place.  Respect …

When you are a woman—an adult female human being who has overlapping disabilities that all intersect with being a woman—it gets extremely challenging to keep hearing your existence trivialized. I’m …

What I love about Octavia Spencer’s production direction of “The Lost Women of Highway 20” is that she intentionally spotlighted all the missed opportunities, when people chose not to listen …

When a woman asks for safety, listen to the danger she is describing before you begin searching for something wrong with her character. We absolutely must reflect on how we …

Remember when the Supreme Court of the United States announced its decision on the Title IX girls’ sports issue—and organizations and political leaders would not even utter the word “girl”…that …