Women’s Rights

We must say it plainly: Oppressive systems are designed to flatten, generalize, and erase. They pretend to be “fair” by treating everyone the same—but they know full well that we …

In many justice-minded communities, we say the right things: 🟩 Believe Survivors.🟩 Abolish harmful systems.🟩 Center the most marginalized.🟩 Practice accountability and restorative justice. And yet—when someone is raped, abused, …

In the push for restorative or alternative justice, one painful reality is too often left behind: 👉🏾 Victims have a right to safety. Not imagined safety.Not theoretical safety.Not “community-accountability-if-everyone-agrees” safety. …

1. Who is this “solution” really for? Does it center women and girls, or just placate the powerful? Who is being protected, and who is being managed? 2. What kind …

My professional advocacy work in domestic and sexual violence began in racially and economically diverse rural areas.  Rural women experiencing domestic violence face unique, compounded challenges—yet policy responses rarely account …

(Including the violence you want me to stop talking about.) There’s a particular kind of betrayal that Black, Indigenous, and other racially marginalized Survivors know too well: The kind where …

Zainab Jama, Miss World Somalia 2025, is not just a beauty queen—She is a truth-teller.A torchbearer.A fierce, unflinching voice for girls the world too often tries to silence. At just …

✦ by WeSurviveAbuse.com In courtroom after courtroom, from high-profile celebrity trials to quietly buried local cases, a deeply disturbing pattern emerges:Abusers and traffickers often demand to be called certain names. …

  Too often, when men like Sean “Diddy” Combs are accused of violence, public conversation zeroes in on his romantic partners—on their choices, their silence, their timing. But this is …

If you’re not an advocate for giving violent, manipulative, deceptive, abusive males more rights and protections—Then you need to say that.And sound like it.And act like it. Because if your …