Womanism/Feminism

“We learn too late because no one taught us soon enough. Let this be the generation that teaches before the harm.” Comfort feels nice. Safety keeps you alive. Too often, …

When women are conditioned to put everyone else’s comfort above our own safety, we begin to disappear—slowly, quietly, obediently. We learn to smile through unease. We learn to downplay threats. …

To be socialized as a woman means to be trained — subtly and overtly — in what the world expects from those born female. It’s a lifetime of unspoken lessons, …

A womanist does not enter this conversation as a spectator — we enter it as those who have lived inside the body that the world debates. Long before words like …

Survivor advocacy has always required naming what endangers women and children — even when it’s unpopular. This isn’t the kind of work that earns applause or bright lights. In more …

When women stop listening to other women about safety—when you say, “That never happens,” or “Who cares?”—you hand over our collective protection. You turn the volume down on our warnings, …

  You’re not imagining it. Every time peace needs patching, someone turns their eyes toward a woman. Every time rage fills a room, someone expects a woman to whisper it …

When children are trapped in abusive homes, they’re not just harmed by the acts themselves. They’re trained through language. Words become cages. The same phrases that should nurture them are …

Words That Tried to Tame Women For generations, women have been shamed into labor — emotional, physical, spiritual — through language that sounds ordinary but carries violence underneath. These words …

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism. Shirley Chisholm   From the earliest movements for freedom, Black women have never …