When Belonging Breaks: Surviving in Truth When Cultures Defends Abusers
I get when some groups defend some aspects of abusers. I’ve slipped (more than once) and done it too. I’m a human. I still have a duty to push back…
I get when some groups defend some aspects of abusers. I’ve slipped (more than once) and done it too. I’m a human. I still have a duty to push back…
This isn’t about a song but like most art, it offers life lessons. Jingle Bells” was written in 1857 by James Lord Pierpont, a white composer who worked in minstrel…
Some of us didn’t need a courtroom to tell us that digital harm is real. We felt it in our bones the moment someone used our name, our picture, or…
Black women have always been expected to endure harm quietly, yet blamed when we finally speak it plainly. The updates around Megan Thee Stallion remind us why naming the harm…
It’s a strange kind of exhaustion—working beside women who understand abuse in private relationships, yet act confused when the same dynamics show up in systems and institutions. They can name…
Across cultures, eras, and systems, females are positioned as the most vulnerable group of human beings — not because of weakness, but because of the world’s long-standing appetite for controlling,…
So, Meghann Cuniff. The Megan Thee Stallion case didn’t just expose a violent act.It exposed a culture — one that treats Black women’s pain like a spectacle, a meme, a…
Some stories never stop echoing — they just move from one woman’s life to another’s. In 1990, a woman named Robin Gardner was riding her bicycle down a rural road…
I admired her healing journey before the movie. The number of times I sat with women (the park ranger, the martial artist, the cop, the welder, the construction manager, the…
She called me because I was serving as her victim advocate: His family is mad at me and now I’m so confused. “He is trying to change but sometimes he…