All posts tagged "Survivors"
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, 1 in 4
By Courtney Sylvester **Content Warning: sexual violence, rape** 1 in 4 finally gets invited to a party 1 in 4 gets ready for a party...
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Becoming Each Other’s Harvest
Let us envision a society that does not empower the carceral state to intervene in the affairs of our families and communities, but instead builds...
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On Moving Forward
Removing the threat of prison is also likely to bolster odds that victims and their families come forward and challenge abusers. The prospect of losing...
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Self Love with Accountability
Being in community with other survivors and expressing myself artistically has been critical in my healing journey. Community helps to end the stigma and shame...
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Casting Aspersions
If we advocate for the truth, we have to let go of the ideas that our religion, respectability, morality, and discipline will keep us safe....
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Violation and Making The Road By Walking It
It’s not about people’s inability to make the leap between accountability and love. It’s about whose well-being is valued in our society and whose is...
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Our Silence Will Not Save Us: Considering Survivors and Abusers
As a womanist psychologist, minister, and sacred artist, my reflections on effective response to child sexual abuse necessitate an examination of the journey of survivors...
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How I Built Community While Researching Accountability
I knew then that if following that truth was healing her and kept bringing her back to this honorable work, that indeed we were no...
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Love Centered Accountability
Living in a punitive, crime and punishment society makes the idea of #LoveWITHAccountability almost inconceivable. What on earth would be unearthed if we began to...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, That Why Question Again
By Chi-Chi Ayalogu This is an era in social consciousness when the knee jerk reaction to gender based violence is to attack the perpetrator,...
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Ending the Colonial/Modern Occupation of Indigenous Women’s Bodies in Guatemala and Perú
By Pascha Bueno-Hansen On Friday, March 4, 2016, a group of survivors, advocates, and activists occupied the entrance to the Peruvian national criminal court,...
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2 Poems Inspired by Audre Lorde by Melinda Goodman
By Melinda Goodman IAM …ARE YOU?…READY In her poem entitled, “Power”, Audre Lorde proclaims, “The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready...
