Survivor Affirmation: I Will NOT Shrink Truth to Comfort Those Who Fear Boundaries
Boundaries are love not hate.
They are love in action — love for your peace, your time, your healing, and your future.Saying “no” is not crue [...]
The Time Budget: 10 Reasons Saying “No” is a Strict Financial Decision
Imagine opening your bank account and realizing a stranger has been authorized to swipe your debit card whenever they feel like buying a coffee, a mea [...]
How Society Continues to Enable Abuse and Violation of Women and Girls in Sports
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💔 When Sisterhood Is a Silencer: Spotting the Wounds Behind the Smile
Some women walk with us in sisterhood—but not in solidarity.
They speak our language. Quote the affirmations. Light the candles. Clap at the empowerm [...]
🌬️ Benediction for the Journey: On Letting Go
Letting go is not weakness.Letting go is not failure.Letting go is not giving up.
Letting go is sacred.Letting go is survival.Letting go is Womanist [...]
I Wish You No Harm—But This Doesn’t Work for Me: The Truth About Women’s Boundaries
There is this strange, deeply embedded belief that in order for a woman or girl to be considered a "good person" she must sacrifice her safety for men [...]
When Love Becomes a Warning: The Forgotten Conversation About Parricide and Estrangement
There’s a growing trend across online spaces where people—especially younger adults—discuss estrangement from parents as if it’s a simple math equatio [...]
What the Olympic Boxing Debate Really Reveals About Gender, Power & Responsibility
updated 2025
You know what truly angers and frustrates me about this Olympic boxing issue?
It’s not just the debate—it’s the pattern.
Whenever th [...]
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Domestic Violence Is Rising While Survivor Services Are Disappearing: What the Latest Data Reveals
I don’t know if you saw this, but while overall violent crime is reportedly on the decline, domestic violence in the U.S. has actually risen by ab [...]
Who Leaves When You Start Healing
They don’t always leave when you’re breaking.Sometimes they leave when you start putting yourself back together.Healing has a way of revealing [...]
MINK! — My Mom Fought For Title IX, but It Almost Didn’t Happen | Op-Docs
Original post: May 4, 2023They never wanted women and girls to have safety and fairness in sports.Equality, sports, and Title IX - Erin Buzuvis and Kr [...]
What Happens When Women Reach Their Breaking Point: The Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Cost of Carrying Too Much for Too Long
When a human being, especially a woman who has been carrying others for too long, reaches her breaking point, several things can happen—physically, em [...]
Surviving Abuse Daily: Musical Empowerment for Women
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Shaming Survivors Is How You Build an Abuser’s Paradise
You want to know how abusers thrive in families, churches, and communities?It’s not just what he does.It’s what you do for him.
Every time you shame [...]
When Men Encourage Boundary Violations, Women Pay the Price
Why It’s Wrong—And Sometimes Criminal—for Men to Overrule a Woman’s “No”
In every corner of society—online and offline—there’s a dangerous pattern we [...]
How Women’s Pain Is Minimized to Keep Men Comfortable
If there were no men in the room,no men in the equation,no men to protect or appease—
would anyone ever look a girl in the eye and say:“It’s no [...]
What Does Female Erasure Look Like? You are Looking at It
Do you see it yet?When women and girls can't use words to define ourselves.....When words like"front hole""birthing person""menstruator""vagina [...]
Whispered Civil Rights Movement Secrets: Fannie Lou Hamer the Truth Teller
There are people—loud and determined—who would have you believe that the systemic rape of women of color ended with slavery.That is a lie. A har [...]
Tammi Terrell’s Story Reminds Us That Survival Is More Than Staying Alive
When people speak about Tammi Terrell, they often begin with how young she was when she died.
Twenty-four.
They talk about the brain [...]
Coach, Therapist, Psychologist, or Doctor? A Compassionate Guide for Abuse Survivors Seeking the Right Support
My strength is sacred, but I do not have to carry everything alone.
I release the belief that asking for help makes me weak. Support is not failur [...]
They Can’t Always Find the Right Words. But They Still Deserve to Be Heard.
Sometimes Survivors speak in whispers.Sometimes in long pauses, in shaking hands, in misplaced laughter.Sometimes… not at all.
But let me tell you so [...]
Respect Without Surrender
It is possible — and necessary — for people to be respected, valued, and protected by law without being granted unconditional access to you.Respec [...]
The Tactic of Feigning Ignorance to Delay Justice and Accountability (Infographic)
When megastar Megan Thee Stallion was granted a protective order against fellow rapper Daystar Peterson (Tory Lanez) who is incarcerated for assaultin [...]
The Conversation That Keeps Missing the Point on Violence Against Women
People direct public anger toward groups that may have hurt or failed them. That reaction is human. But it can stop the conversation at the surface.
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Highlighting Stories Calling for An End to Violence Against Women and Children in 2023 Part 1
There has been debate around Black victims of domestic and sexual violence withdrawing support from writers and creators who choose to ridicule, [...]
7 Signs You’re Not “Being the Bigger Person”—You’re Being Eroded
You think you’re doing the right thing.Being nice.Being kind.Being patient.Taking the high road....just like you were taught.
But when you're deali [...]
They Always Want Women to Trust Men but If it Goes Wrong, They Are Gone
Just take his word for it?Now, as soon asthat leads to harm for a womansociety stands in line to launch victim-blaming attacksI have close relati [...]
The Physical Reality of Trauma: Why Boundaries Aren’t Optional
There is nothing abstract about the blood on the floor.
The room could be a delivery room.
A girl's restroom after school.
A woman's restroom after [...]
💣 Beauty as a Battlefield: When We Compete, They Win
Let’s tell the truth:This world wants women to be at war with each other.
Not over justice.Not over safety.But over aesthetics.
It’s no accident t [...]
When Older Women Are Told to Give Until It Hurts
The internet will have you believe something very simple and very cruel, and in my view, is rooted in misogyny:If younger people cut you off, it m [...]