What Women Are Still Waiting to Hear (podcast episode)
Why won’t they say our names? In an era when nearly every issue has a spokesperson, why do so many women and girls feel unheard when it comes to their…
Why won’t they say our names? In an era when nearly every issue has a spokesperson, why do so many women and girls feel unheard when it comes to their…
Either non-verifiable gender ID reigns, and men are advantaged (AGAIN) while women are displaced(AGAIN), or verifiable sex reigns, and women’s sports can exist. Hmm which is fair? Laura Wiley Haynes…
Someone is telling on themselves……. In Jim Crow America, Black people—especially Black women and girls—were forbidden from having boundaries: A Black woman couldn’t say no to a white man’s advances…
Many Black people have endured generations of: “It’s not that bad.”“You’re overreacting.”“They didn’t mean it.” That pattern is its own harm. “Racism is like a Cadillac. They bring out a…
There is a pattern that deserves daylight. Some movements wrap themselves in the language, symbolism, and moral authority of the Black American freedom struggle. They echo the rhythm. They borrow…
Black women speaking about maternal death are not “race baiting.” This is a call-out of minimization, deflection, and tone policing when mothers and babies are dying. We can remind leaders…
Teen dating abuse is not “drama.” It is not “kids being kids.” It is a pattern of control, coercion, and harm that shows up in homes, schools, phones, group chats,…
You are seen. You are heard. Survivors are speaking in this moment.And when they speak, something important shifts. Not toward labels. Not toward debates.Not toward protecting identities that were never…
Adults. Adults can either create safety or harm. We play a hand in upholding abusers and harmers of children. A larger part than we want to admit. Not just in…
We arrived here because too many people rush to shield their favorite men instead of listening to the harmed. We can stop. Right now. We arrived here because discomfort feels…