We talk about boundaries so often here because for women—especially Survivors—boundary setting is not just a life skill. It’s liberation. For centuries, laws, customs, and traditions were built to erase …
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When the Help Hurts: Understanding Institutional Betrayal
There is a special kind of pain that comes when the place you turned to for help becomes the source of another wound.That is institutional betrayal — when a system, …
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Until Respect for All Includes Respect for Women’s Boundaries
There is no hate here. No hatred of any man, or of how he chooses to live or express himself. Not even who he chooses to love.WeSurviveAbuse was never built …
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Protecting Your Spirit: What Spiritual Boundaries Are and Why They Matter
For people who work with and serve victims of violence and abuse, violation of spiritual boundaries is common. I have seen women’s entire families go against them to support an …
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Even Warriors Need a Well: Faith, Feminism, and the Right to Refuel (w/affirmations)
People may mean well. But to insist that women fighting for justice — especially women working to protect other women — must also abandon faith, spirit, or prayer?That’s not progress.That’s …
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Faith & Fire: Black Women Who Knew God and Justice Could Share the Same Space
They’ll tell you that you can’t be a woman of faith and a feminist. That believing in God somehow means you must stay silent, small, or submissive.That faith and feminism …
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And Why Don’t Black Women Call the Police? (Graphic video posted by Ben Crump)
“The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers – a great pity, …
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Sisterhood Can’t Be Real If It Skips Over Racism
Sisterhood can’t be real if it skips over racism. There are women who carry racist beliefs, jokes, or habits in their daily lives — yet they still expect trust, solidarity, …
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The Survival Doll Trap: A Caution
Stay away from people who can’t wait to see you step into danger, but never rejoice in your survival. These are the ones who treat your survival like a sideshow …
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May We Never Forget the Battles: When Pregnancy Was a Fireable Offense
It has gotten to the point where many of us in the West were not there in the days when a woman could be fired because she was pregnant. Society …