Violence Against Women

“Will a highly neutral parentage framework be sensitive enough to recognize unequal power, violence, coercion, reproductive abuse, and sexual assault?” If institutions are going to look women in the face …

  Control rarely begins with chains. It often begins with convincing people that their own eyes, ears, memory, and judgment cannot be trusted. History is filled with people who were …

  Updated from November 2025 How hard is it to just say “mothers and…..?”   In 2024, Black women had a maternal mortality rate of 44.8 deaths per 100,000 live …

A woman asks for safety. Everyone else asks for evidence.   🌿 Sometimes a woman is not asking for much. She is asking for rest. She is asking for privacy. …

Let’s try something new. Men’s spaces are often treated as default, protected, and not up for public management in the same way. Women’s spaces get treated like community property: everybody …

  Some injuries announce themselves with bruises. Others move in quietly, sit behind the ear, ring through the night, and make a woman wonder if she is “just stressed.” That …

When a man kills three women over his lifetime, the system did not just fail once. It failed over and over. It was designed this way. Not all men will …

“Why doesn’t she leave? Why did she go back?” We don’t spend a lot of time examining what makes women doubt themselves. I look forward to the days when we …

“Because boundaried spaces don’t build themselves—someone has to brave the silence first.”[WeSurviveAbuse.com] Most people will tell you Lucy Diggs Slowe was a tennis champion.That she was the first Dean of …

It was just past midnight on a Sunday in May 2003 when fifteen-year-old Sakia Gunn stood at a Newark bus corner, laughing with her friends. She was coming back from …