Category: Victims Rights
When Men Like Snoop Dogg Get a Pass: Misogyny, Entertainment, and the Cost to Women
I love old skool hip hop. I was there for much of its beginning—its [...]
The Old Code of Chains: A Timeline of Control Over Women’s Privacy and Safety
Women who demand male free spaces are not hateful but have you exp [...]
Only 2% “Owned” Slaves?”: Slavery and Slaveholding in the United States Facts (Part 3)
Slavery and Slaveholding in the United States, 1860
Introduction
O [...]
When Belief Becomes a Cage
Belief is powerful. It shapes how we see the world, how we raise our c [...]
Why It’s Wrong to Call Women “Hateful” for Demanding Safety
When Black and Indigenous Women Are Called “Hateful” for Demanding Saf [...]
When Leaders Put Special Interests Above Public Safety
Leaders who put special interests above the well-being of the people a [...]
Difference Does Not Erase Consent: What Prince’s Refusal Teaches Us (w/audio story)
I've listened.
Far too many people within the LGBTQ+ community respo [...]
Remaining Calm in the Face of Abuse: A Survival Tactic We Can All Learn From
We have never given domestic and sexual assault victims the credit tha [...]
Why Declaring Women’s Right to Privacy and Safety Means Rejecting Male Entitlement
When we declare that women and girls have the right to privacy, dignit [...]
Only 2% “Owned” Slaves?” The Dangerous Game of Subtracting Context
We’ve all heard it: “Only 2% of white people "owned" slaves.”It’s a ta [...]
Why Every Generation Thinks It’s “Right” (And Why That Changes)
I'm really starting to feel like we need to bring back those stickers. [...]
When “Anti-Carceral” Becomes a Back Door for Abuse
Survivors of violence, harm, and abuse know full well what "no justice [...]
Rethinking ‘Capitalist’: Point It Toward Human Traffickers, Not Black Communities
For the love of money.......
Some of us grew up knowing what capita [...]
When Overpolicing Silences Survivors of Domestic Violence
When you work in organizations that address violence against women [...]
Why Women Must Stop Handing Power to Our Oppressors
Some of us have been told since girlhood that our main purpose in this [...]
When Political Parties “Care” — But Only in One Corner of Our Lives
Political parties love to remind women and minorities: We care about y [...]
Who’s Really Saying “Stop Harming Her”?
You want women to fight for men when those same men will not even say, [...]
“The Jennifer Melle Case: When Women’s Safety Loses to Male Protection — Even for a Convicted Child Predator”
Nurse Jennifer Melle was doing what few people would want to do: provi [...]
Please Stop Signaling Support to Grown Men Accused of Harming Children
Start Showing Up for the People Who Need It Most
When someone is arre [...]
Ugandan British Nurse Punished for Calling Convicted Male Pedophile “Mr” (update)
Updated 8/3/25
So the latest update is that Jennifer Melle has bee [...]