Violence Against Women

“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 …

🔥 What Is Gaslighting? – WE Survive Abuse It is a heavy thing to realize that the people with the loudest microphones are completely blind to the ground you walk …

  The tragedy of Deanna Cook is a painful, textbook study in how a broken safety net can fail a woman who did everything right. The lawsuit filed by her …

updated from June 2025 This history is not symbolic. It is specific, embodied, and carried forward through language. For many Black American women, forced renaming has never been a side …

But self-knowledgeBut self-knowledgeThe reason I refuse diluted language is because I have watched institutions dilute women’s experiences for decades. In fact, just yesterday I was scrolling online when I came …

Some of us were never told that we deserved to feel safe.We were told to keep going.To be strong.To not make a scene.To forgive.To forget.To move on. So we did.We …

The recent UK review that found serial rapists and offenders remained in policing despite serious warning signs and vetting failures. Which got me thinking:   In the U.S., one felony domestic …

Another week. More headlines. Three fathers allegedly killed family members. Their ENTIRE family. Communities were left grieving. News reports called the violence “shocking.” (really?) But another word appeared in the …