Category: TRUTH
🎯 General Categories Protect the Powerful, Not the Vulnerable
We are often told that broad categories are a sign of unity.That we sh [...]
Naming is Healing. Naming is Legacy
There is power in a name.
When you name an experience, you call it ou [...]
📚 Language Is Power. Categories Shape Policy and Perception.
Oppression is not only carried out with fists, laws, and locked doors. [...]
🧩 Oppressive Systems Are Built to Erase Specificity
We must say it plainly: Oppressive systems are designed to flatten, ge [...]
When Your Strength Makes Them Angry
Some people will try to make you feel like you did something wrong j [...]
🧨 The Dangerous Oversight in Some “Alternative Justice” Conversations
In the push for restorative or alternative justice, one painful real [...]
🧩 REARTICULATION: When the System Repackages Harm in New Clothes
WARNING TO THE LOVING, THE NURTURING, THE HEALERS:
The systems we f [...]
💣 In Just One Second: 12 Ways People Tell You They’re Pro-Abuser
(And Maybe Capable of Abuse Themselves)
Sometimes it doesn’t take a [...]
🚨 Listen Closely. Believe Them.
Too many people overlook this. We want to believe that people are be [...]
She Caught the Girls Before They Fell: Victoria Earle Matthews and the War Against Trafficking (1861–1907)
10 Incredible Facts About Victoria Earle Matthews
1. She Was Born Ens [...]
The Door Closes When You Choose Their Violence Over My Truth
(Including the violence you want me to stop talking about.)
There’s a [...]
Start Your Own, Even If It’s Small. Because Truth Needs a Home.
Let’s tell the truth that so many are scared to say:
They keep claimi [...]
HE Chose Violence
Blaming women is the usual default setting but if a man is violent, le [...]
Preserve the Woman. Protect the Fire.
When you finally realize that someone’s harmful behavior has more to d [...]
We Do Not Have the Privilege of Forgetting. But the World Wants Us To.
Every single day, women are surviving things that many refuse to name. [...]
She Wasn’t Weak. He Was Dishonest.
We need to talk about the way society punishes women for being manipul [...]
What History Taught Us About Joining Hands Too Quickly
The phrase “we should all fight together because we are all minoriti [...]
What Is Spiritual Violence? And Why We Must Talk About It
“If your faith doesn’t let you cry, rage, rest, or leave the places [...]
Why Must We Carry Everyone? The Heavy Expectation Placed on Black Women’s Healing
She wasn’t just expected to heal. She was expected to heal everyone [...]
You Never Know Who’s Listening
You don’t know which of the people around you are living in abusive [...]