TRUTH

I do not owe anyone a smaller truth so they can maintain a larger lie. Absolutely no woman deserves to be harmed because she spoke a truth somebody did not …

I went to grade school with a girl who might put you on the mind of the loveliness of Nina Simone or Victoria Santa Cruz. People were extremely cruel to …

There is something particularly sad about a woman becoming one of the world’s great symbols of female sexuality while privately struggling with an illness rooted in her reproductive health, enduring …

We are nowhere close to being able to collapsing women’s issues into total invisibility……Maybe in thousands of years or something, but not now. Sometime AFTER people learn to listen to …

A movement does not become more compassionate by asking the vulnerable to become invisible. True justice makes more room without removing the people who were already standing there.   Who …

We tend to imagine trauma as someone crying when they remember something terrible. Sometimes it looks nothing like that. Sometimes trauma looks like anger. Sometimes it looks like working constantly …

I will help build a culture where doing good is interesting again. There were so many morally bankrupt and inhumane comments about Jason Arday on social media. One of them …

Risk for harm grows where care is uneven. And for Black women, care has never been evenly given. Healthcare didn’t listen. Domestic violence services do not either. Where are Black …

Her name was Marzieh Nieri. She was 23 years old. Marzieh said she fought back when a man attempted to sexually assault her. The man died from his injuries. Iranian …

 She demonstrated wisdom across a lifetime. She died a wise woman. And still people took advantage of her and her people. She Was Wise. They Broke Their Word.   Wambli Autepewin, …