Wednesday, October 21, 2026

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

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

10 Signs Your Child Advocacy Is Truly Child-Centered

🚩 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...
Stop Shaming Women for Protecting Themselves
Why Is Everybody Debating What a Woman Is Instead of Asking...

We Followed Farrah Fawcett. Then The Burning Bed Showed Us a Horror...

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When “I Am” Becomes a Demand
When the Bank Said No: How Credit Laws Once Trapped Survivors in...
Stop Recasting Boundaries as Ignorance
You Weren’t Difficult. You Were Just Finally Done Pretending It Didn’t Hurt
The Real Fallout of Ignoring Women’s Warnings

When Did You Decide That Female Human Beings Are Not Even...

Trending Again

When the Truth Ain’t Enough, They Spread Lies: How Rumors...
Please Stop Telling Survivors, “Men Wouldn’t Go That Far.” History...
Respect Without Surrender: When Rights Don’t Mean Access
📢 Hidden Herstory: The Leesburg Stockade Girls
If Men Can Organize to Challenge Women’s Boundaries, Why Can’t...
When a Female Student Reports Rape, Why Is She the...
Chief Theresa Kachindamoto Did Not Wait for More Girls to...
We Followed Farrah Fawcett. Then The Burning Bed Showed Us...
🚩 Red Flag: When Someone Is Offended by Your Boundaries
When Men Expose Themselves to Girls: Why We Must Take...
🖤 12 Ways Black Women Are Harmed When Men Weaponize...
Teaching Tales: Three Women Who Faced Injustice and Fought Back...
9 Reasons Survivors Build Their Own Healing Spaces (and Why...
Sisterhood Can’t Be Real If It Skips Over Racism
📺 The Objectification of Black People After the Civil Rights...
Black Male Survivors of Rape Deserve to Be Seen, Heard,...
🧩 Oppressive Systems Are Built to Erase Specificity
If Every Man Gets to Ask Women Why She Said...
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Women's Safety

The Gate That Didn’t Trust Anyone (podcast episode)
Before We Ask Why Black Women Don’t Talk, We Need...
The Truth We Carry, the Healing We Deserve
Protecting Our Children: Essential Questions for Background Checks on Adults...
⚠️ They Know. And Still, They Point You Toward the...
Who’s Really Saying “Stop Harming Her”?
✨ If You Weren’t Powerful, They Wouldn’t Be Obsessed with...
November Calendar Challenge: Violent Male Criminals Defined as “Women”
12 Films That Show How We Are Taught Not to...
The Leader Who Hurts You in the Name of Healing
When Women Are Violated by Men, Don’t Police Our Tone...
Not Every Wound Needs a Healing Deadline

Protecting Children

🛑 When “Being Nice” Becomes Dangerous: Reclaiming Boundaries After Trauma
This Is Not Just a Relationship. It’s a Campaign of...
Do Not Throw “Studies” in Our Face
Scouts Honor: The Secret Files of Boy Scouts of America...

For More on Child Safety: Rosaschildren.com

Every Woman Deserves to Be Heard in the Delivery Room
How Climate Change is Making the Violence Against Women Epidemic Worse
They Want Us to Give Up “Mother” While Rapists Keep “Father”
The Stubborn American Habit of Obstructing Black Girlhood
Imagine If We Told Men to “Be Kind” as Often as We Tell Women
Black History Month Means Honoring the Humanity of the Women Who Loved Us Here (Musical Playlist Included)

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Respect Without Surrender: When Rights Don’t Mean Access
🚨 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?
🎓💥 Go Anyway. Learn Anyway. Grow Anyway.
When Someone Tries to Humiliate You and Take Your Name: Two Abuse Tactics Survivors Should Know (audio ep)
Why I Believe Women When They Say They’re Afraid — And Why You May Want To Too (updated with podcast link)
How Abusers and Systems Use “You Have It Good” to Normalize Deprivation
Calling Women “Hateful” for Wanting Safety Is Abuse Dressed in Decorum
Male Predators Are Male: Why Language Matters for Survivor Justice
Survivor Spotlight: Katrina Cooke Brownlee

WE Survive Abuse Podcast

10 Clear Signs He Doesn’t Respect You (And What Survivors...
The Fable of the Man Who Changed His Coat Not...
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Media

He Had Threatened Her Before: 10 Survivor Lessons from LaVon Morris-Grant’s Whom Shall I Fear

October 5, 2026

Everybody is Somebody: Journal Prompts on Identity (video short)

April 16, 2024

Pam Taught Us Some Things: Why Tichina Arnold Always Deserves Our Love

January 3, 2026

Phrases People Use to Silence….the Harmed (video)

November 22, 2022

Mood Board: Thy Name is Serwa

July 22, 2025

So THIS Is What Happened to Freaknik

March 22, 2024

They’d Say You Asked For It: The Cost of a Woman’s Truth in a World That Loves a Lie

August 20, 2026

Survivor Affirmation Videos: The First Five Years

November 19, 2022

AFFIRMATIONS

🎁 Unwrapping the Present: A Reflection for Survivors
If the Harm Is Precise, Our Words Must Be Precise
When Beauty Becomes a Battleground: 7 Names for This Power...

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

How ‘WE the People’ Violate Women in Prison Today

Black Women Have Carried the Community Long Enough. When...

Her No Is a Complete Sentence

There Is No Bad Day to Tell the Truth

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💔 They Don’t Say She Was Loved — They...

The Overlooked History of Black Disabled Lives: Survival, Misunderstanding,...

Your Mind is Your Strongest Weapon—Keep It Sharp, Keep...

Shelter Full or Closed? Where Survivors Can Still Find Help...
by Tonya GJ Prince
10 Signs Your Child Advocacy Is Truly Child-Centered
by TGJP
We Followed Farrah Fawcett. Then The Burning Bed Showed Us...
by Tonya GJ Prince
When Did You Decide That Female Human Beings Are Not...
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Women's History

A Slap to the Ear Is Not “Just a Slap”: What Survivors Need to Know About Ear Injuries, Concussion Symptoms, and Strangulation

Unhealthy Self-Esteem vs. Self-Compassion

You Don’t Have to Prove Your Worth: Reclaiming Women’s Right to Safety, Dignity, and Respect

You Can’t Protect Survivors and Still Make Space for Predators

Calling Out the Undermining of Women and Children’s Rights
When “Separation” Isn’t Safe: Why Women Need More Space, Not...
Jenifer Lewis Talks About Sexual Assault and Dealing with a...
Mood Board: Thy Name is Serwa
Weaponized Empathy Is Not Solidarity. It’s Coercion.
The Physical Reality of Trauma: Why Boundaries Aren’t Optional
Being Protective Is Good: Why You Don’t Have to Choose...
The Apology Is Too Cheap: Black People Deserve More Than...

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
Myth vs. Fact: Are 93% of Sex Offenders Religious?
An Affirmation Prayer for Women
To Every Parent, Guardian, and Grown-Up Who Loves a Child: Teach Them Their Boundaries Are Holy