Not If I Can Help It

10/10/2026

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10/07/2026

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10/07/2026

10/02/2026

Quote by Eric K. Threlkeld

“October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. We do not have an awareness problem. We have an action problem.

We know domestic violence can escalate. We know many high-risk offenders leave warning signs. We know lethality assessment, strong investigations, information sharing, and multidisciplinary intervention can help us identify danger. The question is whether we are willing to change the way we work.

For those of us in leadership, October should cause us to take a hard look at how our organizations actually respond to domestic violence, not at what our policies say we do, but what happens at 2:00 in the morning when a deputy or officer responds to a domestic violence call.

Are we identifying the victims most at risk?
Are we using a validated lethality assessment, and doing something with the information it gives us?
Are our investigators looking beyond the incident in front of them and investigating the pattern of violence, coercion, stalking, strangulation, threats, and escalating behavior?

And perhaps most importantly, are we talking to each other?

We know more today about domestic violence lethality than we ever have. Knowing isn't enough. We have to act on it.” -Eric K. Threlkeld

09/24/2026

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09/23/2026

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Every year in the United States, pleas from protective parents and their children are vilified and ignored, and tens of thousands of children are court-ordered into the supervised custody of an abusive parent. Some of those children do not survive.

To get involved in reforming the laws and policies in family courts around the country and nationally and in your state, visit National Safe Parents Organization and join the advocacy community.

09/15/2026

💖Gloria Steinem

09/10/2026

Years ago, in 2012, Gloria and I were at Barnard College, surrounded by young women in a conversation about feminism, women’s rights, and social change.

I was proud to bear witness to their sense of worthiness and independence—and recognized how Gloria’s work had helped forge the path to that moment.

We as women owe her so much.

She challenged a culture that often told us who we could be, what we could do, and how much space we were allowed to take up—and then spent her life making that space wider for all of us.

And although she was a defining leader of the women’s movement and became an icon, she never wanted the movement to be about her. She understood that real change happens when one woman finds her voice and then uses it to help another woman find hers.

Every woman who has ever walked into a room knowing she belongs there; every woman who has demanded equal pay, equal respect, ownership of her own body, and the right to make her own choices; every girl who has grown up assuming that her dreams are hers to pursue—whether she knows Gloria Steinem’s name or not—is living, in some measure, inside the progress Gloria helped create.

She leaves us with more freedom than she inherited—and with the responsibility to keep widening that freedom for the women and girls who come next.

What a life. What a legacy. What a difference she made.

In the words of Maya Angelou, she always made me proud to spell my name W-O-M-A-N.