🖤 1. Demanding Grace While Denying Ours Black women are often expected to extend endless empathy, understanding, and forgiveness—especially to Black men navigating racism, trauma, or systemic stress. But when …
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I Have Spent Too Many Years Listening to Women and Children to Believe That Saying Something Makes It True
I have spent more than 30 years working with women and children who have experienced abuse. And one of the things that experience has taught me is that people are …
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When Blackness Is Clear but Womanhood Becomes a Debate: A Question for Black Leaders
When you are a woman—an adult female human being who has overlapping disabilities that all intersect with being a woman—it gets extremely challenging to keep hearing your existence trivialized. I’m …
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You Can’t Say the F-Word on Television, but You Can Call Women Whores?
When insulting women is considered entertainment, but women objecting is considered oversensitivity, the joke has become a lesson in whose dignity is negotiable. Viewers of American television are noticing that …
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Before He Killed Again: How Many Women Tried to Warn Us?
What I love about Octavia Spencer’s production direction of “The Lost Women of Highway 20” is that she intentionally spotlighted all the missed opportunities, when people chose not to listen …
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When a Woman’s No Is Called Hatred: What Does That Say About How Men View Women’s Boundaries? (with free pdf download)
Why women’s refusal, independence, and desire for safety are so often treated as offenses against men. There is something deeply troubling about a man hearing a woman say no and …
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How Violence Prevention Is Treated as Worse Than the Violence Itself
When a woman asks for safety, listen to the danger she is describing before you begin searching for something wrong with her character. We absolutely must reflect on how we …
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Female Teachers Are Sounding the Alarm: What Are Boys Being Taught About Women, and Who Is Protecting the Girls in Their Classrooms?
What happens when a generation of girls is expected to learn alongside boys who are being taught to regard them as lesser human beings? What female teachers are describing deserves …
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It’s Not About Sex: How Rape Culture Actually Works (video)
Rape culture isn’t about sex. This video is about the everyday behaviors that teach boys other people’s discomfort is entertainment, that boundaries are negotiable, and that his amusement matters more …
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The Fairytale Behind “Why Didn’t She Call the Police?”
Woman Lured Her ‘Baby-Daddy’’s Rape Accuser Into Kidnapping, Prosecutors Say · City Cast DC There is a fairytale version of society hiding behind the question, “Why didn’t she report?” …