All posts by Guest Contributor
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Social Silence & Child Sexual Abuse
Please, give us our reparations if you knew that someone was hurting us and we couldn’t cry out for ourselves. Please check on us, make...
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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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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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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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Unfinished
For centuries, Black women have been expected to hold up the church, whether through finances, service, or both. Who’s holding up these women? Who’s singing...
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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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a place to live
I understood I was going to have to write, which, for me, meant jumping into a volcano and praying I would be able to climb...
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“The Least of These”: Black Children, Sexual Abuse, and Theological Malpractice
Until Black churches are honest about human sexuality and our collective discomfort with it, sexual violence will remain unchecked and accountability will be nothing more...
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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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Arts & Culture: “For the Semanticists”
By Jeanann Verlee se·man·ti·cist noun a specialist in the study of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. white priv·i·lege noun 1. making a semantic suggestion...
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Arts & Culture: “Disquiet”
By Mariam Williams I tried to write this pretty, but five false starts in, I give up and state it plainly: I...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Postpartum Pain
By Elisabeth J. Ferrell-Horan “Wellbutrin in my Brain” There is Wellbutrin in my brain, and I’d like to get it out. It has...
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The EverywhereNess of White Supremacy; from Glacier to Standing Rock, to Tulsa, to Charlotte, to…
By Zillah Eisenstein I have just returned from hiking in Glacier National Park. It is a strange place to have been—during this hate-filled racist/misogynist Presidential...
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Arts & Culture: “Back Door Shoes”
By Mary Cuffe Perez They will be the last of her things to be taken away. The toes still wear a grin of mud and...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Listen
By Sharon Lin I don’t need your misogyny Your happy-go-lucky sugar sweet kisses wrought against wet skin in a tattered skin-tight bathing suit...
