Violation

A womanist does not enter this conversation as a spectator — we enter it as those who have lived inside the body that the world debates. Long before words like …

Survivor advocacy has always required naming what endangers women and children — even when it’s unpopular. This isn’t the kind of work that earns applause or bright lights. In more …

When women stop listening to other women about safety—when you say, “That never happens,” or “Who cares?”—you hand over our collective protection. You turn the volume down on our warnings, …

  You’re not imagining it. Every time peace needs patching, someone turns their eyes toward a woman. Every time rage fills a room, someone expects a woman to whisper it …

When children are trapped in abusive homes, they’re not just harmed by the acts themselves. They’re trained through language. Words become cages. The same phrases that should nurture them are …

Words That Tried to Tame Women For generations, women have been shamed into labor — emotional, physical, spiritual — through language that sounds ordinary but carries violence underneath. These words …

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism. Shirley Chisholm   From the earliest movements for freedom, Black women have never …

In South Africa, a woman built an AI “Aunt” — a digital guide designed to support women facing violence. It’s a beautiful innovation born from heartbreak. And it tells a …

Karla Brada Mendez thought that she was getting a second chance on life when she started going to AA meetings. But instead she met Eric Allen Earle, an AA old-timer …

She called me because I was serving as her victim advocate: His family is mad at me and now I’m so confused. “He is trying to change but sometimes he …