AFFIRMATIONS AND SELF LOVE
🔥 Self-Sourced Power: When the World Won’t Crown You, You Crown Yourself
There comes a time in the life of every Survivor, every truth-teller, every woman who’s been underestimated, overlooked, or left to fend [...]
WE Survive Abuse Podcast Episodes
Difference Does Not Erase Consent: What Prince’s Refusal Teaches Us (w/audio story)
I've listened.
Far too many people within the LGBTQ+ community respond to Prince's response insist that he had no right to say no because he was per [...]
As a Woman, You May Find It Challenging to Stand Up for Yourself If..(video & audio)
“I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.”
– Maya Angelou
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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 [...]
12 Unapologetic Truths: Your Rights as a Woman Are Unconditional (Audio/podcast)
Your rights as a woman are not up for debate. You don’t need permission, validation, or a committee vote to own your power. In this b [...]
People Locked the Door: Why the Voting Rights Act Should Still Exist Powerfully w/audio
Congressman John Lewis was beaten while fighting for voting rights.
On March 7, 1965, during the Selma voting rights march across the Edmund Pettus B [...]
HEALING

Favorite Memoirs and Reads on Abuse, Rape, & Violence: Tonya GJ Prince
Greetings Readers, Books are a critical element to healing and understanding violence,
rape, and abuse. Book recommendations
are valued. Pleas [...]

🌿 Faith, Healing, and the Work of Safe People
People who support Survivors—from all walks of life—should know this:
many Survivors are people of faith. Not all. But many. Some draw stre [...]

Red Flags in Relationships: Recognizing Silent Signals of Control
updated from January 12 2025 Here is when I knew.
I was riding in the car with my date. Our first date.
He picked me up.
He brought me a si [...]
CHILDREN DESERVE SAFETY
How Women Can Support Gay Men In Their Lives in Abusive Relationships
Abuse doesn’t care about gender or sexuality. It happens in all kinds of relationships—straight, gay, lesbian, and everything in between. But when it [...]
BECAUSE SHE IS SOMEONE
Sisterhood Can’t Be Real If It Skips Over Racism
Sisterhood can’t be real if it skips over racism. There are women who carry racist beliefs, jokes, or habit [...]
The Chloe Randolph Bill and Organization in Kentucky
Some losses change the shape of a family forever. There are moments when language becomes too small for wha [...]
Surviving Abuse Daily: Hope in the News for Abuse Survivors
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Healing When Your Abuser Is Still Welcome at the Table
The betrayal no one wants to talk about—but every Survivor remembers. There’s a kind of betrayal that l [...]
END FEMICIDE
Why Does the Racist Masculinization of Women Obligate Us to Fight for Others—But Not the Other Way Around?
Remember when you were little and another kid hit you. Maybe you yelled back at the other kid. The adults wo [...]
She Didn’t Stay Because She Didn’t Know. She Stayed Because She Did.
People assume she stayed because she didn’t know.
Didn’t know her worth.Didn’t know what he was doing to he [...]
Where “Bidirectional Abuse” Comes From and Why It Can Mislead People About Black Women
I was astonished that in a season where we had a string of Black femicides and people were asserting "bidirect [...]
When Women Say No: Why Men Mocking Our Boundaries Is a New Low
We Are Protecting Our Bodies, Not Asking for Permission
There’s something deeply broken and dangerous happeni [...]
END RAPE
If WE Want to End Rape, We Must Center Victims
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Respect Without Surrender
It is possible — and necessary — for people to be respected, valued, and protected by law without being grante [...]
Her VOICE is Terrifying But Not His Violence?
Some men (and women) don’t define harm as what they’ve done.They define harm as a woman’s refusal to keep quie [...]
🕯️ For Those Who Never Reported: We See You
There are so many reasons Survivors don’t report.And not one of them makes your story less true.
Some of you [...]
THE SHOP
🌿 My Self-Soothe Journal
🌿 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
Why Are Women Told to Stay Calm About Things That Should Horrify Everyone?
When women, girls, and children talk about boundaries, it’s not hate speaking. It’s concern. It’s exhaustion. It’s survival language. Too [...]
“Why Do We Treat Male ‘Change’ Like a Sacred Revelation Instead of a Responsibility?”
A man "changes". Why do we women receive this as our "marching orders"? Do men do this? NO. They treat our changes and transformations [...]
🔥 When They Take It All Back: Why Some Survivors Recant
Updated for WeSurviveAbuse.com, 2025
Let’s return to this uncomfortable truth: when victims of sexual violence recant, it is often not [...]
LEGAL/COURTROOM
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Drowning Out the Truth Creates Female Isolation
It is easy to the thing we fight against because we live in it and we were raised within it. We have to make sure that as a society, as a workplace, [...]

🛑 Stop Saying “Men Wouldn’t Go That Far to Abuse Women
Please stop telling Survivors that "men wouldn’t go through the trouble of dressing up as women just to abuse women."
We’ve heard it too many times [...]

7 Devastating Truths About the Atrocities Facing Women and Girls in Sudan (and Why the World Must Not Look Away)
Women and girls in Sudan are facing unspeakable violence—sexual violence used as a weapon of war, mass displacement, and ethnic cleansing. These are n [...]
HERSTORY/HISTORY
Implanting an Enemy Within Women and Girls
You were mocked for being smart then and now by Tonya GJ Prince [...]
Cloaking Women: Are Journalists Pressured to Erase and Marginalize Women?
Sex·ism prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex:"sexism in language is an offensive remind [...]
Truth-Telling Is Not “Race Talk.” It’s Course Correction.
Saying “Black woman” is not race discourse.It’s not divisive.It’s not inflammatory.It’s accuracy in the field of violence and abuse — a field that h [...]
MANIPULATION
They Just Know: How Abusers Play by the Same Rules
There’s no secret clubhouse.No annual meeting.No formal initiation or online group chat.
And yet—somehow—they just know.
They know what to say.They [...]
When Women’s Values Are Tested: The Fight to Protect What’s Sacred
People who get confused about what is best for their own lives seem to spend an excessive amount of time telling women what is best for their lives. [...]
This Isn’t “Just Drama.” This Is Coercive Sex Trafficking
There is a deep and dangerous misunderstanding about the case involving Sean Combs and what it means to traffic someone through coercion. So let’s m [...]
ART IS HEALING

How latin instruments can help you predict the future
13 ways country billboards can find you the love of your life. 16 ways music scores could leave you needing a lawyer. How ho [...]

Eve’s Legacy Is More Than Music—It’s a Blueprint for Reinvention
Eve is more than a mic and a moment—she’s a one woman movement.From Philly cyphers to global stages, from "Love Is B [...]

🎤 Survival, Sisterhood, and Triumph: Honoring Salt-N-Pepa Enter the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
When Salt-N-Pepa burst onto the scene, they didn't just make music — they made space.Space for women's voices. Space for bol [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Hip Hop’s Double Standard Around Gun Violence
#Hiphop this week: Earlier this week the community was mourning the death of Takeoff & the gun violence that snatched hi [...]
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Big Mama Thornton: I Stand Up for Myself For As Long As I Can
Big Mama Thornton, who originally recorded the classic song "Hound Dog", was a pioneering artist who broke barriers an [...]

🎤💰 Money, Respect & the Woman’s Mic: Black Women’s Songs About Money, Power, and Respect
updated from April 2025
"We're supposed to pretend that if we are "good girls," a "good man" will find us and give us every [...]

How Survivors Can Preserve the Lessons from Their Experiences for Storytelling
originally published 11/20/2015 To tell your story, you are going to need the details of your stories. No one can tell [...]

Difference Does Not Erase Consent: What Prince’s Refusal Teaches Us (w/audio story)
I've listened.
Far too many people within the LGBTQ+ community respond to Prince's response insist that he had no right to [...]

The Times Change—And So Do We
"The only constant in life is change."-Heraclitus "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same r [...]
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