Violence
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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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activist, poet, prison abolitionist, human rights advocate, incest and rape survivor
I don’t need an “apology” from the harm doers in my life to actually heal. I don’t need a pitiful recognition to liberate myself. Amends...
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Safe Space: The Language of Love
To espouse a system of avoidance and silence is to espouse the alienation, physically, and spiritually of those who have been relegated to the margins...
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Thoughts on Discipline, Justice, Love and Accountability: Redefining Words to Reimagine Our Realities
That imagining, visioning and building is speculative fiction. What would our world look like without child sexual abuse/violence? What are the ways we are learning...
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Paying it Forward Instead of Looking Backwards
I can now share my story because of the anti-rape movement, and each telling helps the healing. Maybe love with accountability is paying it forward...
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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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Oh, to Be Free Again: Love, Accountability & Bodily Integrity in Response to Child Sexual Abuse
For more than two decades, I have worked in various ways to heal the wounds inflicted upon me so many years ago—from working and organizing...
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Sunset: Seeking True Accountability After All of These Years
I am a CEO of a national nonprofit working to end violence against ALL women by centralizing the voices and leadership of women of color,...
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Accountability to Ourselves and Our Children
What we know is that child sexual abuse is an epidemic. It is traumatic. Surviving it increases the chances that you will be sexually assaulted...
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[VIDEO] Pops’nAde: a Courageous Daughter & Her NonAbusive Father on Loving Lessons, Living Legacies (L)earned after Sexual Violence
We lift our voices to sing; we speak because we must, and we speak without shame, trepidation, or doubt that we have a right to...
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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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Fast
We must ask: What is the relationship between accountability and transformative justice? Justice that transforms harm into something else, like Black love, is hard work....
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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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Soul Survivor: Reimagining Legacy
I am mindful that the Movement looms much larger than my father or his work, but I also know that there were men...
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Digging Up the Roots: An Introduction to the #LoveWITHAccountability Forum
We must also address child sexual abuse and other forms of sexual violence in our families, our communities, and our religious, academic, political, and civic...
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Honoring Black Resistance without Supporting Nate Parker
During our many long and painful conversations about this publication, we deliberately and intentionally considered the reasons why so many Black folks would choose to...
