Youth
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Male Ego Bulls**t: On Martial Arts Training, Violence, and Toxic Masculinity
By Jesse Goldberg This past summer, I got to watch a friend of mine win her first sanctioned kickboxing title. I’ve been training in martial...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Capital-P-Productivity
By Laura Honsig “Capital-P-Productivity” is what a friend of mine called it once. For a long time I’ve been trying to put words to an...
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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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It’s the Whispers
Current activism about everything from the school-to-prison pipeline to police violence notes that our Black children are deemed older than we really are, with knowledge...
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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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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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A Network of Care
Networks of care for our children, and for the adults who have survived means creating community-based responses to violence. Responses which do not engage in...
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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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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, 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...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, “Wrong or Right, Black or White?”: The Convergence of Race, Gender, and Justice in Constructions of Catwoman
By Jazlyn Andrews Have you ever felt so intrigued by a fictional character that you want to explore every facet of them until they...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, The Model Minority Myth: “Performing” Asian
By Angela Kong “What’s your major?” They ask me. I pause. I always pause. I’ve never been the type to speak up in class....
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, I’m Not the Girl of Your Dreams
By vanessa rose I’m not the girl of your dreams so please stop calling me that I’m not your pin-up fantasy Why is that the...
