Violence Against Women

Someone is telling on themselves……. In Jim Crow America, Black people—especially Black women and girls—were forbidden from having boundaries: A Black woman couldn’t say no to a white man’s advances …

Living in the West is not what makes a woman safe. Privacy is not modesty theater. It is part of bodily safety. It is shield. We do not give that …

We can’t have an honest conversation about why our grandmothers—and their mothers before them—often prescribed silence in the face of pain without acknowledging the brutal truth: women who dared to …

updated from November 25, 2025 Staying informed is an act of power. Because once you see how the system works, you stop begging for fairness and start demanding change. Some …

I was astonished that in a season where we had a string of Black femicides and people were asserting “bidirectional violence” on dead women that they didn’t know. Only she …

Too many women have called a hotline or support number that I was working for where this behavior was a part of her story.  Only now they were in serious …

I’ve seen the meme of her so often. You may have too. She was a woman from Brazil who was harmed “by mistake,” they say. Accused of being an informant. …

Myth 1: “Talking about unfairness is divisive.” Fact: Silence does not create unity. It only hides the wound. When people name unfair treatment, they are not breaking the peace. They are …

There is no need to pretend this is good news. Voting rights are important to Black Survivors of violence and abuse, especially when the only way to end violence and …

Congressman John Lewis was beaten while fighting for voting rights. On March 7, 1965, during the Selma voting rights march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Alabama state troopers attacked peaceful marchers. That …