Wednesday, October 21, 2026

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

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

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...
Stop Shaming Women for Protecting Themselves

10 Signs Your Child Advocacy Is Truly Child-Centered

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🚩 Red Flag: When Someone Is Offended by Your Boundaries
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🛑 You Can’t Build Something Sacred on Disrespect
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Women's Safety

When Women Forget We Are Women
African Women Will Not Be Silenced: How the Continent is...
Facing Reality: Identity Does Not Erase Patterns of Male Violence
Why Declaring Women’s Right to Privacy and Safety Means Rejecting...
🌿Healing Without Being Pulled Into Someone Else’s Agenda
You Call It Staying. She Calls It Surviving.
Twice as Good Doesn’t Stop at the Boardroom
The Insidious Nature of Racial Stress
7 Black Canadian Women Who Fought for Women’s Rights and...
Serial Killer Harvey Marcelin Serving Time in Women’s Prison
Jeffrey Marsalis Was Called a “Prolific Rapist.” But What About...
What Are Pseudoseizures? Understanding Psychogenic Seizures in Trauma Survivors

Protecting Children

When Leaders Put Special Interests Above Public Safety
The Lost Secret of Child Sexual Abuse: I Love a...
Abeni: Girls Are Worthy of Our Best #videoshort #girlpower
The Truth About Catfishing: It’s Not Harmless. It’s Harm.

For More on Child Safety: Rosaschildren.com

💔 When the Weight Is More Than Weight: Understanding the Link Between Trauma and Body Size
The Book I Avoided—Until I Couldn’t Anymore
The Eye of the Child Sexual Abuse Survivor: A Black Man Takes the Mic
8 Phrases of Comfort Parents Can Communicate to Children to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse
A Spell Too Far: Protect Children or Leave Them Alone
Only 2% “Owned” Slaves?” The Dangerous Game of Subtracting Context

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If Men Can Organize to Challenge Women’s Boundaries, Why Can’t They Organize to Challenge Male Violence?
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“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.
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WE Survive Abuse Podcast

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Preserving Women’s Energy for Liberating Women and Girls: Girl Child Marriage in Nepal

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AFFIRMATIONS

Put Your Needs First Affirmations(video short)
Women Don’t Need Permission to Choose—We Need Power to Thrive
They Called It Victimhood. I Call It Rising.

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

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“The Forgive and Overlook Habit”: Why the Crisis of...

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The Tender Hands the World Must Never Forget

Institutional Sexual Violence: Can There Be Consent When One...

We Must Unlearn the Misplaced Blame We Inherited

Please Stop Signaling Support to Grown Men Accused of...

When Technology Becomes a Weapon: What You Need to...

Why Is Strangulation Rising? What Experts Say About Choking, Porn,...
by Tonya GJ Prince
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Women's History

65 Beliefs Some Men Hold About Women: Control, Boundaries, and the Fight for Choice

Affirmed: Protect Your Power and Disengage From People Who Plant Self-Doubt

You Don’t Owe Anyone Access to the Version of You That Had to Survive Them

How Poetry Can Teach Us About Self Love

7 Reasons Black Women Must Know Our Worth
💔 Period Poverty: 12 Surprising Facts You Were Never Told
Consent Never Came, But the Agreement Was Made
When Blackness Is Clear but Womanhood Becomes a Debate: A...
Why Some Black Mothers Choose the Father’s Last Name
🎓💥 Go Anyway. Learn Anyway. Grow Anyway.
If the Harm Is Precise, Our Words Must Be Precise
Access to Women Is Not a Male Human Right

Womanism and Feminism....Because Women's safety, heard voices, and Liberation is the Goal

Call Him What? When Abusers & Traffickers Demand to Be Named Something Special

Call Him What? When Abusers & Traffickers Demand to Be Named Something Special

15 Ways Oppression Keeps Control Over Women, Even After Women Make Progress

Faith & Fire: Black Women Who Knew God and Justice Could Share the Same Space

Familiarity Doesn’t Make Stranger Abuse Irrelevant

Celebrity Confirmation: For Women Autonomy Is Not Teflon Against Violence and Abuse

They Know What They’re Doing: Why Abusers Target Neurodivergent People—Especially in Love

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
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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