Category: violence

Why âThe Last RECORDED Lynchingâ IS NOT the Same As âThe LAST Lynchingâ
White Americans desire to be free from a past they do not want to reme [...]

50 Times We Walked Past YouâOur Hair Not to Your Liking, But We Were Dying Inside
updated March 27, 2025
You saw our hair.
Not our fear.Not ou [...]

The Cost of Agreeability: How We Uphold the Barriers We Think We Are Fighting
I've served the women who responded to violence and were facing harshe [...]

Forced Sterilization Never Ended â It Just Learned How to Hide (women’s present day stories through videos)
The thing about 'female exams' is that we have to make our bodies avai [...]

đ„ âWhy Does My Safety Offend You?â â When Women Ask for Boundaries and Other Women Dare to Try to Shut Us Down
âOnly human beings can look directly at something, have all the inform [...]

When Belonging Breaks: Surviving in Truth When Cultures Defends Abusers
I get when some groups defend some aspects of abusers. I've slipped ( [...]

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

Megan Thee Stallion: They Can Fake Your Image, But They Canât Rewrite Your Worth
Some of us didnât need a courtroom to tell us that digital harm is rea [...]

When the Harm Comes for Us First: Updates on the Megan Thee Stallion Case
Black women have always been expected to endure harm quietly, yet blam [...]

Some of Us Canât Pretend Institutions Are Harmless
Itâs a strange kind of exhaustionâworking beside women w [...]