Category: Youth

6 Life-Changing Ways Sports Build Courage in Women and Girls
For a short season, my home state had a WNBA team, and I got to go and [...]

10 Lessons The Hate U Give Teaches Us About Seeing, Hearing, and Protecting Girls
The most dangerous thing adults can do to a child is not [...]

What Women Are Still Waiting to Hear (podcast episode)
Why won't they say our names?In an era w [...]

The Standard Was Always Male. For the Girls, It’s Time We Said That Out Loud.
Either non-verifiable gender ID re [...]

Jim Crow Was About Stripping Boundaries-Not Setting Them
Someone is telling on themselves.......In Jim Crow America, Bl [...]

The Insidious Nature of Racial Stress
Many Black people have endured generations of:
“It’s not that bad.”“Y [...]

Not Like Us: The Black Freedom Legacy Was Not Built on Unquestioning Institutional Compliance
There is a pattern that deserves daylight.Some movements wrap them [...]

Stop Calling It “Race Baiting”: Black Maternal Death Is a Life-or-Death Reality (podcast episode)
Black women speaking about maternal death are not “race baitin [...]

How to Make “Help” Sound More Inviting to Teens in Toxic Relationships
Teen dating abuse is not “drama.”It is not “kids being kids.”
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When the Mask Matters More Than the Truth, Survivors Are Asked to Disappear
There is a reason people cling so tightly to labels when harm is expos [...]