Category: Violence Against Women
🚨 Listen Closely. Believe Them.
Too many people overlook this. We want to believe that people are be [...]
When It’s Not Pride: 11 Ways Violence Against Black Women Hides Behind “Black Pride”
We lift up Black pride as sacred—a celebration of survival, brillian [...]
Black Pride Is Not a Mask for Violence
We talk a lot about Black pride.We wear it.We speak it.We teach it t [...]
🏛️ What Rural Women Need from Policymakers
My professional advocacy work in domestic and sexual violence began [...]
đź–¤ 12 Ways Black Women Are Harmed When Men Weaponize Oppressive Systems
đź–¤ 1. Demanding Grace While Denying Ours
Black women are often expecte [...]
She Caught the Girls Before They Fell: Victoria Earle Matthews and the War Against Trafficking (1861–1907)
✨ 10 Incredible Facts About Victoria Earle Matthews
She Was Bor [...]
The Door Closes When You Choose Their Violence Over My Truth
(Including the violence you want me to stop talking about.)
There’s a [...]
HE Chose Violence
Blaming women is the usual default setting but if a man is violent, le [...]
We Do Not Have the Privilege of Forgetting. But the World Wants Us To.
Every single day, women are surviving things that many refuse to name. [...]
What History Taught Us About Joining Hands Too Quickly
The phrase “we should all fight together because we are all minoriti [...]
African Women Will Not Be Silenced: How the Continent is Rising Against Gender-Based Violence
"If the lion does not tell her story, the hunter will." — African Pr [...]
Kenyan Women Refuse to Be Silenced: The Fight for Safety, Dignity, and Justice
There is a roaring fire rising across Kenya—lit by the courage of wo [...]
You Never Know Who’s Listening
You don’t know which of the people around you are living in abusive [...]
Autonomy Is Not Teflon
Autonomy is powerful.But it is not a shield.Not in this world.
A woma [...]
❌ If You Can’t Speak Your Truth Without Losing Love, You’re Not in a Relationship—You’re Under Rule
There are relationships that look like love on the outside.They may [...]
🚨 Control of Language Is a Red Flag for Abuse—And Many Miss It
✦ by WeSurviveAbuse.com
We’re taught to look for bruises, raised voic [...]
Call Him What? When Abusers & Traffickers Demand to Be Named Something Special
✦ by WeSurviveAbuse.com
In courtroom after courtroom, from high-pro [...]
If You Have Nothing Healing to Say to Survivors, You Can Be Silent
In the early days of healing, Survivors are doing sacred, difficult wo [...]
It Wasn’t Just His Girlfriends: A Pattern of Harm, a Society of Silence
Too often, when men like Sean “Diddy” Combs are accused of vio [...]
We Can Tell What Team You’re On
If you're not an advocate for giving violent, manipulative, deceptive, [...]
