Category: Violence Against Women

The Culture That Questions Women Before It Stops Men
Femicide. We keep saying it. “We can’t bring her back, but j [...]

Women Are Not Required to Be Available
No one could have predicted how this year would end. It bent sh [...]

Our Mental Health Crisis is a Values Crisis
We have made a choice.
Not quietly.Not accidentally.Not without conse [...]

Why Listening to Women’s Pain Feels Hard—And Why It Matters More Than We Admit
I was confused by my own exhaustion.
I had spent years doing what som [...]

Forced Sterilization Wasn’t a Mistake. It Was Misogyny and Racism Working Together.
"All they know about is slavery"
Do we? Or is that all you heard bef [...]

Black women are not fragments.
We are not pieces to be sorted.Not halves to be prioritized.Not parts [...]

A Woman-Centered Truth About FGM We Cannot Abandon (w/list of resource organizations)
FGM victims’ fury as academics compare practice to cosmetic su [...]

What Happens When the People Stop Listening to Women
These stories are unsettling. I do hope that male podcasters, influenc [...]

Jingle Bells Too: When People Pretend the Story Ended at “Slavery Ended”
This isn't about a song but like most art, it offers life lessons. [...]

The Performance of Ignorance: How Men Pretend Sexual Violence Is News.
There is a peculiar kind of amnesia that grips men whenever the subjec [...]