violence

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 …