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Intimate Partner Violence Within The LGBTQ+ Community

As a member of the LGBTQ+ community myself, I’ve always been curious as to why Inever heard about intimate partner violence within queer relationships. I always just assumedthat meant that there was less of it in queer spaces- that our ...

Black Lives Matter…

...and white silence is complicity. There are so many things to be said about the current situation in our world. The first thing is that it isn't new. This isn't America breaking or a failure in the system. This ...

Will You Accept This Rant? January 20

Welcome back to Will You Accept This Rant? for week 3 of this journey to find love (and a culture of healthy relationships in media!) If you haven't been following along yet, we're working to examine and call out our culture ...

Will You Accept This Rant? January 13

Welcome welcome welcome to week 2 of Will You Accept This Rant! We started this week in our WYATR studio, so head over to our Facebook (Click This Link!) to check out our live video and share your thoughts!  You can ...

Will You Accept This Rant?

Hey y'all! We'll be livetweeting this season of ABC's The Bachelor, sharing live-video discussions on Facebook (@safepassagedvsa), and blogging our conversations here. If you're not familiar with the premise of Bachelor Nation, here's a quick rundown: One guy (or woman, ...

Ally

A message from our Volunteer Coordinator, Pam Rosales: Ally by Jaz Sufi The movement to end sexual violence is filled with activists that are passionate in ending other forms of social injustice. In a culture where People of Color experience higher rates ...

T[M]I

I've never seen the word "hymen" posted so frequently on my Twitter timeline. In case you missed the news, rapper T.I. recently mentioned in a podcast that he goes with his daughter to the gynecologist each year to check that her ...

Pulse-2019

It has been three years since the massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Our staff have been working the last few days to plan a Pride event and it hits home that LGBTQIA+ rights have come so far but ...

Give the Gift of Hope

"For so long, I've been hurt by other people. For so long, I've felt stuck, like there's no way out. For so long, I didn't have a voice of my own. Dropping everything and coming to Safe Passage, I found ...

You are the Boss of your Body!

My niece was getting ready for bed one night when I was home visiting my family.  She was just about to head upstairs and crawl into bed when my sister called her back to say goodnight to everyone.  As she ...