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10/22/2026

What not to say…

“I said all the wrong things to Nicole: ‘You’ve got to leave him. You’ve got to get out of this situation. What are you doing?’ That was not being supportive. I want people to get educated and be supportive, and I want victims to know they’re not alone in this situation, and it’s not their fault that this is happening to them.”

More than 30 years after losing her sister to an abusive partner, Denise Brown has written a book about Nicole Brown Simpson, the warning signs of abuse she missed at the time, and what she’s learned as an anti-abuse advocate in the years since.

Read the article from The Guardian, CW for descriptions of relationship abuse ➡️ TheGuardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/oct/05/denise-brown-sister-nicole-brown-simpson-murder-oj-simpson

[Image description: A picture of an article from The Guardian with a photo of Denise Brown and the headline “My sister Nicole married OJ Simpson. This is what I wish I had known.”]

10/09/2026

Narcissistic abuse is getting the exposure that needs to happen. Healing takes a long time.

10/05/2026

The ‘lionesses’ who sued to get air conditioning in every Texas prison- won! Not all heroes wears capes!

"We’ve been laughing and crying and celebrating, and also, you know, preparing because we know that this is just one step in the fight,” said Marci Marie Simmons, director of communications for Lioness. Simmons spent a decade incarcerated in a Texas prison and is intimately familiar with summers inside prison walls made of concrete and steel.

These Texas advocates call themselves "lionesses" for a reason: They say backing down is not in their nature.

In 2022, a small group of formerly incarcerated women formed the nonprofit Lioness Justice Impacted Women's Alliance to empower communities to challenge harmful practices within the criminal legal system. Since that time, they have put a spotlight on what they argue are dangerous conditions caused by extreme heat and cold in Texas prisons.

This week, Lioness, alongside two other organizations, won a major lawsuit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) after a federal judge ruled that the state must air-condition all Texas prisons by the end of 2029. This change would fall in line with rules that already require Texas county jails to maintain temperatures between 65 and 85 degrees.

In a 150-page order, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Pitman noted that roughly 88,697 incarcerated people were housed in unairconditioned units heading into summer 2026, meaning TDCJ provides "cool beds" for only about 37 percent of its population.

This, he argued, violates the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment."

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10/05/2026

10/04/2026

We're still educating women.

Who is educating men?

10/03/2026

The horrors of war…