Violence Against Women

Nurse Jennifer Melle was doing what few people would want to do: providing care — intimate, necessary, and skillful care — to a male prisoner convicted of child sexual abuse. …

Let’s tell the truth:Adults have power. Children don’t. Even the most vulnerable adult usually has more access to voice, resources, legal systems, and public platforms than a child does. So …

You can do everything right and still meet people whose only plan for you is deception, manipulation, and harm. I loved watching how Jenifer Lewis handled this betrayal because of …

Why spend your precious energy trying to prove your humanity to systems, circles, or people who have already decided they don’t see you? That they don’t hear you. We believe …

The True Story Behind the Surgical Legacy Built on Black Women’s Pain Between 1845 and 1849, in Montgomery, Alabama, three young enslaved Black women—Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey—were subjected to brutal, …

The crisis of child predators isn’t going anywhere. Unless the adults change our harmful ways and change them right away. Because the pressure has always been placed especially on female …

🕯 The Parable of the Crooked Weaver Once, in a small village wrapped in forest and silence, there lived a skilled weaver named Marron. He was known far and wide …

The truth is not quiet. The truth is not polite. The truth is not neutral. And neither are predators. Too many of us watched it happen in real time.People made …

I don’t know if you saw this, but while overall violent crime is reportedly on the decline, domestic violence in the U.S. has actually risen by about 3% in major …

Stop making abuse a softer crime just because the beat is familiar. Let me just get this sentence out so I can be done:   Must we use every Black …