Grateful for another chance to talk to fellow survivors on this week’s episode of the Blue Radio Show Podcast. Thanks to Helia for reaching out and asking me to share my story.
You can listen to the audio on either the YouTube above, or on Spotify, and check out the other episodes where Helia has a number of child abuse survivors telling their stories!
It’s up over at Picture of Experence today, in time for the Father’s Day weekend. When I first saw that she was planning tthis edition in connection with Father’s Day, I had planned on writing up something here, but as the deadline approached, I realized that I just didn’t have anything. Father’s Day really means…
Pin Over the weekend, I tweeted a link to a post IÂ wrote, sharing an article about supporting people dealing with trauma. There was, however, one person who quoted the tweet with a comment that stuck with me for a couple of days: Very few people haven’t experienced trauma (very few women especially). We can all use…
It’s up over at Cerebralmum’s. With this being the month of Thanksgiving, she gave it a Gratitude Theme. Looks like there’s some good reading over there, and since I’m trying to rid myself of this cold, I think I’ll spend some time reading through it! Technorati Tags: CarnivalAgainstchildAbuse, BlogCarnival, Gratitude
Lots going on this weekend in the online survivor community. If you’re not out enjoying the weather, or watching some football, there’s plenty of good stuff to read and think about. First up, Dan has the Inner Child Edition of the Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse up. There’s quite a bit of good stuff linked…
Pin As you might imagine these sorts of activities are severely traumatizing, and Lauren’s response in the article I linked makes that clear. I also want to address the more subtle trauma here though. That trauma comes from those of you who will read this story and immediately respond “well she shouldn’t have been taking those photos”.
I want to be very clear here. That statement is 100% blaming the victim. This is the same exact thing as saying a woman shouldn’t have walked alone at night, or had a drink, or a child shouldn’t have been so friendly with strangers, etc. Lauren didn’t do anything wrong. What she and her husband do inside of their marriage is none of our business, no laws were broken, nothing untoward was going on. She was just a wife living her life and she was hacked. The person who stole these photos was the one breaking the law. The people sharing and selling those photos were breaking the law. Save your moral outrage for them and the people requesting to have these photos used to create fake rape videos because she was a rape victim.
Anyone who can read the entire story and walk away indignant more at her for having taken photos that were perfectly legal and a personal choice instead of the people who have violated her are simply violating her again.
Just had to link to this post about the warning signs of inappropriate adult behavior toward children. It is that important, and it’s something we need not make excuses for or look the other way. Child abuse is a serious problems that can only be prevented through serious efforts. Also, see their post about signs…
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