Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Not Everyone Who Helps You Feel Comfortable Is Helping You Stay Safe

When a Girl’s Body Becomes a Discussion About What Men Want: Somalia’s FGM Debate

Dr. Cecelia Baldwin: Someone Not Liking You is Not a Problem You Need to Solve

When a Female Student Reports Rape, Why Is She the One Who Loses Her Education? The Title IX Connection

Chief Theresa Kachindamoto Did Not Wait for More Girls to Be Harmed. She Took Action.

Why Is Strangulation Rising? What Experts Say About Choking, Porn, and Domestic Violence in 2026

We Followed Farrah Fawcett. Then The Burning Bed Showed Us a...
When Did You Decide That Female Human Beings Are Not Even...
🚩 Red Flag: When Someone Is Offended by Your Boundaries
When Men Expose Themselves to Girls: Why We Must Take This...
Women’s Safety Is Not “Fascism.”Prevention Is What Laws Are Supposed to...
Stop Teaching Girls to Lose Gracefully: They Deserve Adults Who Will...
“She Knew What She Was Doing.” Why Do Adults Say This...
A Book and Film I Recommend: Bastard Out of Carolina by...

Shelter Full or Closed? Where Survivors Can Still Find Help in 2026

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There Are No Magic Words That Grant Access to Our Boundaries
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📢 Hidden Herstory: The Leesburg Stockade Girls
Respect Without Surrender: When Rights Don’t Mean Access
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🚩 Red Flag: When Someone Is Offended by Your Boundaries
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If Women Are ‘Imagining It,’ Why Is Someone Making Money...
Mahogany: Beyond Fashion, a Lesson in Power and Abuse 💔
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Women's Safety

15 Signs Someone Is Manipulating You Through Confusion
Male Violence Against Women: Males with Disabilities #RIP Yazmen Williams
When Our Words Teach Them What’s “Normal” About Violence
✅ Moral Gaslighting: When Women Asking for Safety Are Treated...
Why Are Women Told to Stay Calm About Things That...
💣 In Just One Second: 12 Ways People Tell You...
When They Can’t Control You Anymore, They Try to Control...
Why Abuse Leaves You with Chronic Self-Doubt
Naming the Chains: Understanding Misogyny, Gynophobia, Sexism, and Patriarchy
Voyeurism Is Not Harmless: 20 Things to Know About Peeping...
We Will Never Have a Safer World If We Don’t...
You Don’t Have to Prove Your Worth: Reclaiming Women’s Right...

Protecting Children

8 Phrases of Comfort Parents Can Communicate to Children to...
🌺 Affirmation Post: “I Will Not Apologize for Surviving”
Coercive Sex Trafficking: What People Don’t Understand
110 Amazing Facts About Katoucha Niane: The Peul Princess Who...

For More on Child Safety: Rosaschildren.com

Chief Theresa Kachindamoto Did Not Wait for More Girls to Be Harmed. She Took Action.
🔊 The Right to Speak: What a Difference a Voice Makes
The Language of Women’s Freedom: Feminophobia
They Know What They’re Doing: Why Abusers Target Neurodivergent People—Especially in Love
Why Safeguarding Bathrooms is No Laughing Matter for Women and Girls
12 Quiet Ways Self-Abandonment Shows Up

What's Everybody Reading

Top of the posts
If Men Can Organize to Challenge Women’s Boundaries, Why Can’t They Organize to Challenge Male Violence?
🚨 Control of Language Is a Red Flag for Abuse—And Many Miss It
“She Knew What She Was Doing.” Why Do Adults Say This About Abused Children?
Why I Believe Women When They Say They’re Afraid — And Why You May Want To Too (updated with podcast link)
Male Predators Are Male: Why Language Matters for Survivor Justice
🎓💥 Go Anyway. Learn Anyway. Grow Anyway.
When Someone Tries to Humiliate You and Take Your Name: Two Abuse Tactics Survivors Should Know (audio ep)
How Abusers and Systems Use “You Have It Good” to Normalize Deprivation
Calling Women “Hateful” for Wanting Safety Is Abuse Dressed in Decorum
Survivor Spotlight: Katrina Cooke Brownlee

WE Survive Abuse Podcast

10 Clear Signs He Doesn’t Respect You (And What Survivors...
The Empty Chair: When Solidarity Does Not Require Self-Abandonment (audio)
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Media

E. Lynn Harris: The Visionary Black Author Who Gave Us Stories We’d Never Seen—But Always Needed

June 14, 2026

Mood Board: Thy Name is Serwa

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What The Women of Brewster Place Teaches Us About Access, Isolation, and the Right to Move Freely

July 31, 2026

Stephanie Lyn: How to Distance Yourself

August 24, 2025

The Truth From Pam and Aunt Esther: Naming the Disrespect Women Were Taught To Ignore

January 3, 2026

Why Does Everyone Want Women to Prove Their Kindness by Becoming Less Protected?

September 16, 2026

5 Ways Women Are the Shock Absorbers of Patriarchy

July 6, 2025

You Don’t Have to Stay Where You’re Not Safe

July 4, 2025

AFFIRMATIONS

Survivor Affirmations: Fear Exists to Teach Us
When the Whole World Is Watching: It Takes a Super...
Dignity Is Not Bitterness: Elder Women Deserve Safety, Too

Legal, Courtroom, and with action.....Justice

Twice as Good Doesn’t Stop at the Boardroom

Every Woman Deserves to Be Heard in the Delivery...

Joan Little: First Woman Acquitted of Murder for Defense...

We Don’t Close Doors Around Here: When Women’s Privacy...

Unheard Women and Children: The Struggle for Independence in...

The REAL Reason Nursing Got Downgraded (No One Will...

🛑 What the 2023 Supreme Court Stalking Case Means...

Forced Sterilization Never Ended — It Just Learned How...

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by Tonya GJ Prince
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by Tonya GJ Prince
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by Tonya GJ Prince
10 Signs Your Child Advocacy Is Truly Child-Centered
by TGJP

Women's History

If We Were Better We Would Be Prioritizing Silenced Children And Not Grown Men

Weaponized Witnessing: When They Watch You Fall, But Never Help You Rise

Remembering Patrick Swayze: When Art Becomes Healing

Favorite Books on Abuse, Rape, & Violence: Tonya GJ Prince (flipbook)

Drowning Out the Truth Creates Female Isolation
Human Beings Were Enslaved Here in the US
He Wants It. But Why Does She Owe It?
15 Ways Oppression Keeps Control Over Women, Even After Women...
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Womanism and Feminism....Because Women's safety, heard voices, and Liberation is the Goal

🕊️ The Sisterhood Gag Order

🕊️ The Sisterhood Gag Order

Survivor Affirmation: I Will NOT Shrink Truth to Comfort Those Who Fear Boundaries

Naming the Chains: Understanding Misogyny, Gynophobia, Sexism, and Patriarchy

Diversity Is Not the Magic—The Work Is

Familiarity Doesn’t Make Stranger Abuse Irrelevant

✊🏾 Support Young Black Women Who Speak Out

SurvivorAffirmations.com

Are You Still Protecting People Who Never Protected You? 5 Powerful Questions to Break the Cycle
Grief Comes Back Again and Again. So Can Love.
Inspired by Gil Scott-Heron: 10 Affirmations on Deserving Respect for Survivors
Behind the Wall by Tracy Chapman: When a Woman’s Cries for Help Are Heard, but Help Never Comes
Before “I Am Woman” Became an Anthem, Women Were Fighting to Be Heard: The Story Behind Helen Reddy’s Song
Who Did You Have to Become to Survive? A Gentle Introduction to Jungian Self-Reflection for Survivors

RosasChildren.com

Did the U.S. Justice Department Remove Child Sex Trafficking Information? What Parents and Advocates Should Know
The Children Are in the Philippines. The Men Paying for Their Sexual Abuse Are in America. CNN Investigates.
When Your College Student Is in Trouble: Build More Than One Layer of Support
The Sleepover Dilemma That Comes with Parenting a Black Child
Some of Us Remember Surya Bonaly’s Face. That Is Why We Are Watching the Girls Now.
Why Are Kids Going Hungry at School? The Truth About School Lunch Debt

BraidtheLadder.com.....Please Donate items for Textured Hair to Shelters and Foster Care Charities

Black Women Should Not Have to Change Our Hair to Climb the Ladder (w/example video link)
Beautiful Things Require Care: Why We Need to Listen Better When Young Black Women Talk About Their Hair
People With Opinions Like Lauren Boebert Are the Reason We Need to Pass the Crown Act
Health and Safety Issues Include Black Hair Care Products
Black Women are Human Beings Not Hair Mannequins
FDA misses deadline to propose ban on formaldehyde in hair-straightening products

BrighterFaith.com

The Behavior You See Is Not Necessarily the Whole Child: Giving Struggling Children More Grace
BrighterFaith: When a Mother Says She Is Not All Right, Church, People of Faith Please, Hear Her
Gary Indiana Needs Our Help to Make it Through the Storm
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An Affirmation Prayer for Women
To Every Parent, Guardian, and Grown-Up Who Loves a Child: Teach Them Their Boundaries Are Holy