AFFIRMATIONS AND SELF LOVE
Survivor Affirmations: My Female Existence is Sacred and Worthy of Unapologetic Self-Care (podcast)
Survivor Affirmations: I Deserve Peac from Within by Tonya GJ Prince [...]
WE Survive Abuse Podcast Episodes
Spotting the Red Flags: Early Warning Signs of Manipulative and Abusive People (audio/podcast)
Manipulators donât wear name tags, but their actions can reveal their true intentions. In this episode, we empower you with the knowledge to ide [...]
Why You May Want to Unfollow People Who Willfully Turn a Blind Eye to Power Imbalance
As Big Brother Legend on X.com says, "I unfollow (Black) people who don't understand this." At this point in my life, I choose to disaffiliate with [...]
From Objectified to Empowered: Womenâs Rights in Medicine Inspired by Henrietta Lacks (podcast/audio)
 Henrietta Lacksâ story is a stark reminder of the injustices women, especially Black women, have faced in the medical field. Her [...]
HEALING

They Know What They’re Doing: Why Abusers Target Neurodivergent PeopleâEspecially in Love
Letâs talk about something that far too often stays in the shadows:
Abusers know what theyâre doing.And many of them actively seek out people they [...]

What Does It Cost to Constantly Prove You Know Your Own Life?
It costs energyâthe kind your body needs to rest and repair.
It costs peaceâthe quiet that allows your nervous system to settle.
It costs trustâin y [...]

Why Setting Boundaries Feels Like Breaking Rules You Never Agreed To
You finally speak up.You say, âI canât do that.âYou say, âI donât feel safe.âYou say, âThatâs not okay with me.â
And suddenly⊠itâs like you broke so [...]
CHILDREN DESERVE SAFETY
From Koketia King to Lisa Marie Riley: The Danger Didnât End. It Just Changed Addresses.
In 2010, Florida boxer Yathomas Riley was arrested after his then-girlfriend, Koketia King, was shot in the head inside his Miami apartment.Riley clai [...]
BECAUSE SHE IS SOMEONE
đš 25 Items & Systems That Risk Womenâs Lives Because They Donât Accommodate Women
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Women and girls are frequently sent the message that demanding accommodations for our health an [...]
Respect Without Surrender: When Rights Donât Mean Access
The Foundation of True Respect
Respect is not ownership.And justice does not mean surrender.
We live in a wo [...]
The Delay Is the Damage: How Abusers Use Time to Their Advantage
from WESurviveAbuse.com The truth about violence and abuse rarely rushes out of the shadows.It creeps.I [...]
She Didnât Stay Because She Didnât Know. She Stayed Because She Did.
People assume she stayed because she didnât know.
Didnât know her worth.Didnât know what he was doing to he [...]
END FEMICIDE
This Is Not Just a Relationship. Itâs a Campaign of Control.
Some people still think abuse is about losing tempers.Or that it's a relationship that just got too intense. [...]
What âJust Say Noâ Taught Us About False Solutions
There was a time when America believed a slogan could solve a crisis.
The Just Say No campaign told people:
[...]
đš When Power Imbalances Are Ignoredâand Victims Get Hurt
In schools, faith communities, workplaces, and even families, efforts to keep the peace often ignore the power [...]
Women’s History: Victories and Setbacks in the War on Women
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END RAPE
Only 2% “Owned” Slaves?â The Dangerous Game of Subtracting Context
Weâve all heard it: âOnly 2% of white people "owned" slaves.âItâs a talking point tossed around to downplay hi [...]
To Catch Rapists You Have to Listen to Victims
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“She Wasnât Told He Killed Before: The Tragic Workplace Murder of Kerri Harris and the Warning Signs We Canât Ignore”
Women are significantly more likely to be victims of stalking.
Approximately 1 in 3 women have ex [...]
People Donât Just âIgnore Red Flagsâ â Theyâre Protecting Something
When someone stays silent about abuse, overlooks harm, or rewrites the story to sound softer than it wasâitâs [...]
THE SHOP
đż My Self-Soothe Journal
đż My Self-Soothe Journal
A Sacred Space to Tend to Your Spirit, Breath by Breath
There are moments when the world feels too loud⊠and your nervous [...]
LOVING SAFELY
Stay Woke: When a Warning is Turned to a Punchline
Watching language warning about life or death flatten into a "trend".... is frustrating. ââStay wokeâ began as a warning, not a [...]
Leadership Failure: How Leaders Are Failing Women Who Ask for Safety
When Women Say, âI Donât Feel Safeâ
Thatâs not a threat.Itâs an invitation to build something better.
But when leaders double down on si [...]
When DEI Disappears, So Do the Safeguards for Victims and Survivors
The Tech Transparency Project reports that Google removed 58 nonprofit organizations from a public list of those receiving âmost substantial [...]
LEGAL/COURTROOM

Feminism Can No Longer Afford to Be Generalized
Feminism can no longer afford to live in generalizations.When it does, it leaves too much room for people to hide intent, to blur goals, to claim the [...]

đïž What Rural Women Need from Policymakers
My professional advocacy work in domestic and sexual violence began in racially and economically diverse rural areas.Â
Rural women experiencing dom [...]

Grooming by Environment: When the System Softens the Ground for Abuse
When most people hear the word grooming, they imagine a single predator targeting a personâsaying the right things, isolating them, offering gifts, br [...]
HERSTORY/HISTORY
Weaponized Empathy Is Not Solidarity. Itâs Coercion.
Letâs be real. There is a difference between asking someone to care and asking someone to give themselves away.
What we are seeingâtoo often, and too [...]
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 [...]
đ„ Black Women Didnât Just Get HereâWe Dragged Ourselves Through Fire to Arrive
You may have heard it said:âBlack women are the most educated group in America.â
And while that phrase is often used to uplift and celebrate, it dese [...]
MANIPULATION
The Real Exclusion Happens When We Refuse to Face the Truth: Male on Male Violence
It is not women who are being exclusionary when we protect our spaces.It is not women who are the barrier to real, lasting change.
When people refuse [...]
Why Black Women Must Define Misogyny for Ourselves: Because Being a Black Woman Is Different
Letâs imagine this.
All the girls in the world are sitting around a big table.Theyâre laughing, learning, growingâbut theyâre also talking about the [...]
You Donât Get to Speak on Our Hair Journey
For Black American women, the natural hair journey is deeply personal. Itâs not a trend. Itâs not a rebellion. Itâs a reclamation. A quiet, daily ac [...]
ART IS HEALING

CLOSED FOR RIOTS: How One Black Woman Riots Against Racism
Update: This was published August 30, 2015. Remember that day? I do. Driver Samuel DuBose was shot in the head by a ca [...]

Power UP! Lauryn Hill and Doechi at Jazz in the Gardens
updated from March 9 2025
You didn't ignore the neighborhood strays when you were sitting out on the porch. At firs [...]

They Loved the Style, Not the Black Woman: Esther Jones and the Betty Boop Lesson
updated from 11/1/23
Exploitation is a handthat smiles while taking.
It praises your light,then sells your [...]

Dance Is a Weapon, a Womb, a Way Back to Ourselves
They tried to bury us, but they didnât know we were seeds. And we dance where they tried to end us.â
Across time and acro [...]

Maleness Is Portable Power: 20 Reasons Women Are Still Asked to Move Over
updated from June 22, 2025
Nina Simone's song, âFour Women," is powerful because each woman has been made into [...]

The Truth From Pam and Aunt Esther: Naming the Disrespect Women Were Taught To Ignore
There are men who speak to women with deep disrespect â regularly.
And we rarely show it honestly.
Some folks will get off [...]

Gratitude to Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon
updated from February 1, 2025
Music is healing.
Music is power.
Music has the power to change the world.
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đ¶ Playlist: Songs That Speak the Truth â Domestic Violence & Survival
Sometimes music is the only thing brave enough to say what weâve been through.
This playlist brings together 11 songs acros [...]

Songs Survivors Play to Survive Disaster
I Tried One day years ago I was trying to make it through a challenge. Â
In order to get through it I came up with [...]

Pam Taught Us Some Things: Why Tichina Arnold Always Deserves Our Love
I grew up in a generation that was outside. Young people watching Stranger Things still ask: "Were 80s kids really outsi [...]

Book: Beat Face, The Story of Surviving Myself and My Abuser
This author and I follow one another on social media. I once complimented her for being "chameleon" like. Her lo [...]
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