Trauma/Healing

We would tell stories about our origins, and what we have endured, on our own terms, without whiteness determining how we should tell those stories.

It is time, she writes, to become our own protection system to thwart aggressors.

See related story about the January 19 House committee testimony for HF 25 January 16, 2023 — A group of

She witnessed the power of standing up, facing fear, and finding one’s agency — a power she has guided other women to unearth within themselves over the past 25 years.

The events of 2020, from the outbreak of the pandemic to the uprising after the murder of George Floyd, sparked

My new documentary, “Bring Her Home,” is now available on Twin Cities Public Television (TPT).

Minnesota Women’s Press was uniquely invited to participate in a D.C.-based global summit

Suicide, or death by intentional self-harm, has been steadily rising in Minnesota for the past 20 years.

“[We are working] towards creating an entire region of adults who understand what children need and how to provide it for them.”

Thanks to underwriting from University of Minnesota Press, the third in our series of Values & Vision discussions will feature “Take What You Need: Life Lessons After Losing Everything,” by Jen Crow (Broadleaf Books), to be held online August 25, 7pm.

“We punish those who are already victims of their own circumstances and put them into even worse circumstances.”

Getting funded requires a culture shift in society, she says. “A recognition that incarceration does not work. We do not acknowledge the reality of where the harm is coming from.”