TRUTH

Boundaries aren’t walls.They’re doors you open for love — and shut to harm. For too long, women, especially Black women, have been praised for how much we can endure.How much …

They don’t talk about how painful starting over can be.They don’t talk about how holy it is either. Sometimes it doesn’t look like courage.It looks like sitting on the floor …

When you’ve survived abuse — especially the kind that twists your reality, shames your feelings, or calls your truth a lie —self-trust doesn’t just come back overnight.It returns in fragments. …

It is not women who are being exclusionary when we protect our spaces.It is not women who are the barrier to real, lasting change. When people refuse to recognize that …

In a world where women — especially minoritized women, poor women, disabled women, elder women, and other marginalized women all over the globe — have been insulted, underestimated, and dehumanized …

Women fight differently. When the Taliban ordered Afghan women not to sing,they sang anyway.Soft, loud, hidden, public — they sang their existence into the air, refusing to be erased. During …

I’m not angry at other women.Not even the ones who shame, silence, or mock.Not even the ones who call truth-telling “too much,” “too angry,” or “too divisive.” I understand the …

Our nervous system doesn’t comprehend “forgive & forget.”  We can try to not think about trauma that happened to us– but then we end up feeling “crazy” when our body …

  A Mother. A Defense. A Jim Crow Injustice. The story of Rosa Ingram and her two teenage sons, Haywood and George, is one of the most heartbreaking and revealing …

 Anytime you put your time, energy, and heart into something you take a risk. It may not turn out as you had hoped.  That part always hurts. Still in the …