Maria Antonia Keir·Oct 26, 2025It’s Time Australia Lets Women Protect Themselves.I still remember the fear. The kind that makes your body freeze and your thoughts race all at once — the kind of fear that far too many…
Wangu Kanja Foundation·Mar 26, 2025Posthumous Justice — Advocating for the VulnerableJane (not her real name), a 13-year-old girl, lived in Nairobi’s Mukuru Kwa Ruben — an informal settlement with her single mother and two…
RoamLens·Oct 10, 2024I Wish I Were a ManAt many points in my life, I’ve silently thought to myself: I wish I were a man. This thought didn’t arise because I have a problem with…A response icon15A response icon15
Heather Mistretta·Jan 8, 2024It Takes…More Than One VillageAn essay/speech I wrote for my nonprofit, Women & Girls Education International.
Lady Jessie (In honour of)·Dec 1, 2023Day 4 of 16 — my Day 1.There’s a lot of talk right now about gender-based violence, rightly so — given the horrendous statistics that are getting worse and worse…
Isurvivetrauma·Dec 11, 2021THE IMPACT OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE ON PHYSICAL HEALTH. Day 15."I walked aimlessly last night trying to figure out what I was feeling and I couldn’t. My gut was in severe discomfort, unable to decide if…
Isurvivetrauma·Dec 2, 2021TRAUMA RESPONSES: ON F.L.I.G.H.T. Day 7. Pt. 2 (8/16).I'm usually between fawning and freezing. When I started this blog, part of me wanted to use writing to remember what happened to me as a…
Isurvivetrauma·Dec 1, 2021End Inequalities. End AIDS. End Pandemics. Day 6. (7/16).It’s World AIDS Day!
Isurvivetrauma·Nov 30, 2021TRAUMA RESPONSES: ON F.L.I.G.H.T. Day 5. (6/16).Yesterday, I tried to wrap up an introductory post on freezing. This is an introduction because all the trauma responses are inexhaustible…
