Victims Rights

Because access is not respect. And entitlement is not love. Even when men have the access they want, saying no can still be dangerous. History has shown us a painful …

Affirmation: My body belongs to me. My voice matters. My boundaries are worthy of respect. I do not have to surrender my comfort, safety, or dignity to make someone else …

We have got to stop treating the violent crossing of human boundaries as a ‘lapse in judgment.’ You don’t accidentally break into a woman’s peace; some choose to dominate it. …

What does it really mean to protect women? And who gets to decide when a woman’s safety concerns are “serious enough” to matter? In this episode, Tonya GJ Prince reflects …

  It is important to remember that in domestic violence relationships, children are victims too. Children, especially girl children, are often the early warning system to violence to come. Evil …

  Is the conversation still about the concern, or has it become about the person who raised it? There are a lot of accounts online that are mostly female-oriented content. …

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”- Zora Neale Hurston There comes a point when ‘share everything’ sounds a lot like ‘give …

Tell me who I have to be to gain some reciprocity…. Ms. Lauryn Hill As kids, we used to complain about the guy who pulled our braids. The beads fell …

    The issue is not that women are unknowable to the state. It’s that women are often known only in fragments that are useful for administration—risk, dependency, vulnerability, compliance—while …