Red Flags: Why Do Some People Refuse to Challenge Systems of Harm â and What Does that Reveal About Them?
Womenâs safety movements grew from necessity â from the silences of law, the blind spots of culture, and the cruelty of normalized harm. [...]
Speaking Truth for Girls in a World that Prefers Silence (audio)
Welcome to We Survive Abuseâa powerful, unapologetic space where Survivorsâ voices take center stage. Hosted by Tonya GJ Prince, a veteran advocate wi [...]
Juneteenth Reminds Us: Delayed Truth Still Matters (audio)
Freedom has always had an important relationship with truth.On Juneteenth, we remember a painful reality. Freedom had already been dec [...]
By the Power of Self-Protection (podcast/audio)
In a world that often tells women to shrink, to please, and to ignore their instincts, self-protection is a revolutionary act.Join Tonya GJ Prince in [...]
Why I Believe Women When They Say Theyâre Afraid â And Why You May Want To Too (updated with podcast link)
updated from June 28, 2024 Listen to this blog post here There are mom [...]
How We Villainize Black Women Who Disagree with Males, Violence, & Abuse: C. Delores Tucker
How We Villainize Black Women Who Disagree with Males C Delores Tucker
updated from March 21 2022 Th [...]
Why We Test: The Hidden History of Fairness in Sportsâand in Women’s Lives
Panic. You can always tell when men are being asked to do something that women have always been expected to do.Did you know? All female athletes a [...]
FAQ About Trauma, Abuse, & Violence with Gary Jones LCSW (audio)
FAQ About Trauma, Abuse, and Violence With GaryJones LCSW [...]
It Doesnât Take Long: When Obsession Turns Deadly After Just a Few Dates
By Tonya GJ Prince | WeSurviveAbuse.comSome people believe that stalking only happens after long, intense [...]
âđž Women Deserve Safety Without Apology
It is not hateful to name a reality:The same laws that allow trans-identified males to enter womenâs spaces [...]
đ Future Faking: When Promises Become a Trap
Letâs talk about something a lot of Survivors donât even know has a nameâbut once you see it, you canât unsee it.
Itâs called future faking.And itâ [...]
10 Important Things I Might Be Unlearning on My Healing Journey
1. That my pain has to be âexplained wellâ to be real.
My body already told the truth. My spirit already kept the record.2. That being kind m [...]
I Will Survive: How Survivor Gloria Gaynor Keeps Inspiring Decades After the Release of Grammy Winning Song
originally published 2/8/ 2016At First I Was Afraid... When we have been wounded we must heal. To do that, I think we all use a combination of&n [...]
Women Are Not a Feeling. We Are Not Yours to Define.
There is a dangerous lie being whispered and shouted in this world:That a woman is a feeling.That our existenceâour lives, our flesh, our blood, our [...]
When Disability and Blackness Meet: Over 25 Times When Grace Was Denied To Disabled Black People
There is a quiet cruelty that rarely gets named plainly. It lives in the space where Blackness and disability intersect. It shows up not only in drama [...]
A Right You Cannot Define Is a Right You Cannot Defend
 She demonstrated wisdom across a lifetime. She died a wise woman. And still people took advantage of her and her people. She Was Wise. They Broke [...]
đĄ Why the Protests Against Kamala Harris Are Making Her More Relatable (w/quotes from Shirley Chisholm)
"We have been so patient and loyal ... and what has it gotten us? We want our full share now." ~ Shirley Chish [...]
HE Chose Violence
Blaming women is the usual default setting but if a man is violent, letâs put the blame where it belongs.Â
Be [...]
𧏠Hopeâs Name Was No Coincidence: How One Womanâs Tragic Murder Changed Forensic History
[WeSurviveAbuse.com]
Her name was Hope Denise Hall.And in life, she embodied it.In death, she redefined it. [...]
âđž Women Deserve Safety Without Apology
It is not hateful to name a reality:The same laws that allow trans-identified males to enter womenâs spaces [...]
12 Similarities Between Josephine Baker and Megan Thee Stallion
Make your own choices. Live your own life. But when women see patterns through other women's lives, our eyesight becomes so much [...]
⥠Trust Yourself â Without Apology
âThey may call you hateful. But what they wonât call you is gone â because you trusted yourself.âÂ
Ignore the noise of people who do not know better. [...]
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 someone elseâs story.
Au [...]
10 Truths About Grooming: What It Is and What It Is Not
updated from March 2, 2025
Grooming is a word we hear often, yet misunderstanding still surrounds it.
That confusion can lead to silence.I [...]
Every Solution Was Rejected Because Access Was the Goal: Understanding Forced Access, Coercion, and Why So Many Women Feel Pressured to Explain Themselves
A woman asks for safety.
Everyone else asks for evidence.
đż Sometimes a woman is not asking for much.
She is asking for r [...]
⨠When Male Gentleness Is Assumed: Expanding Our Ears, Expanding Our Understanding
updated from December 11 2025
Myth: Straight men are the only danger to women.
**Shayla told me about the male relative she grew up with w [...]
Why Is It Always Supposed to Be Feministsâ Job to End Rape? (FAQ Style)
Women are not responsible for fixing every wound the world refuses to face.
When people tal [...]
Youâre Not Her Judge. Youâre Not Even Helpful.
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The internet is full of people who think that offering opinions on a Survivorâs choice [...]
What's In a Name: A Survivor of Child Sexual Abuse names Her Rapist
Did I tell yâall about that time that they printed a speech I delivered in public in the paper? W [...]
Who Protects the Women Whose Stories Donât Trend
The work of women's safety, women's rights, women's liberation and women's healing is not a music and entertai [...]
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 [...]
The Burden of Blindness: How Systems Force Us to Ignore Our Own Reality
I have been talking about "institutional betrayal" and women and I wanted to acknowledge Dr. Jennifer Freyd who is credited with coining the p [...]
Rethinking âCapitalistâ: Point It Toward Human Traffickers, Not Black Communities
For the love of money.......
Some of us grew up knowing what capitalist meant.It wasnât a cheap clapback.It was a serious wordâmeant to name and ch [...]
Why Abuse Leaves You with Chronic Self-Doubt
And Why That Doesnât Mean Youâre Broken
Thereâs something few people talk about after abuse ends:The way self-doubt clings to you like a second ski [...]
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