updated from July 31, 2025 The Space Was Never the Argument. The Entitlement Was. Survivor Affirmation Every woman deserves a space that stays hers. Not conditional. Not negotiable. Not something …
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When You Ordered Respect and They Send You This Mess Instead (news roundup)
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How Do I Document Stalking? 12 Things to Record and Save
Stalking can be difficult to explain because any single incident may look small when separated from everything around it. A car passes your house. Someone sends flowers. Your ex appears …
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7 Reasons Black Women Must Know Our Worth
You see these movements getting furious with Black women for not asking “how high” because they snapped their fingers? Knowing your worth is not about believing you are better than …
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A Woman Is Not a Community Resource: Her Freedom Includes the Right to Choose for Herself
Women did not struggle for generations to gain the right to choose only to discover that we are still expected to choose whatever keeps everybody else comfortable. Our piece on …
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She Deserved Help: What Kitty Genovese’s Story Still Teaches Us About Silence, Judgment, and the Cost of Looking Away
updated from May 1 2025 UPDATE: I Learned More About Kitty Genovese I originally published this post in May 2025. At the time, I repeated a version of the Kitty …
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Congo Is Asking the World to Look: 7 Devastating Truths About Sexual Violence in the DRC
Well, actually…they’ve been asking for help for awhile. At some point we as a global family can deal with why their cries have gone unheard, including the fact that larger …
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The Apology Is Too Cheap: Black People Deserve More Than Corporate “Sorry”
This is suicide awareness month. Black people are being found dead and hung in 2026 under awfully suspicious circumstances. Two different terribly tragic truths running side by side. Why would …
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7 Devastating Truths About the Atrocities Facing Women and Girls in Sudan (and Why the World Must Not Look Away)
updated from June 13, 2025 Women and girls in Sudan are facing unspeakable violence—sexual violence used as a weapon of war, mass displacement, and ethnic cleansing. These are not isolated …
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Women Being Excluded from Communities: N3LYNNN and the Locs Community
Yep. Women in every corner of life are being shunned for failing to center males. Even as people shout about “inclusion,” “tolerance,” and “kindness,” we are living in a heightened …