Category: Women of Color

10 Ways Faux Concern About Cheek Swabs in Sports Does Not Protect Black Women—It Exploits Us
updated from March 27, 2025
It is an age-old, exhausting pattern: e [...]

✋🏽10 Ways Men Have Tried to Define Womanhood
updated from April 18, 2025
Men who seek power over women always want [...]

Erin Justice: The Worst That Could Happen
updated from May 31, 2023
Women and [...]

How We Villainize Black Women Who Disagree with Males, Violence, & Abuse: C. Delores Tucker
How We Villainize Black Women Who Disagree with Males C [...]

Gaslighting Isn’t Love: Red Flags Black Women Can Choose to Name Out Loud — and Walk Away From
updated from April 7, 2023
Sometimes they try to make you feel like [...]

They Loved the Style, Not the Black Woman: Esther Jones and the Betty Boop Lesson
updated from 11/1/23
Exploitation is a handthat smile [...]

Maleness Is Portable Power: 20 Reasons Women Are Still Asked to Move Over
updated from June 22, 2025
Nina Simone's song, “Four Wome [...]

A Mother Daughter Team Teaching Lessons on Teen Dating Violence: Carolyn Mosely and Ortralla Mosely (Resting in Power)
updated from 2/5/25
I exchanged emails with this mother, [...]

When Girls’ Boundaries Are Rebranded as “Hate” (featuring Boundary Setting video from Dr. Tracey Marks)
updated from November 5, 2022
"You know good and well that a boundary [...]

Celia: How an Enslaved Girl Continues to Inform Black Women’s Work to End Violence Against Women
Celia
updated from September 20 20231. (1855) Celia w [...]