After a decent 30 to 40 years of joking about prison rape, maybe the smallest turning point in the perception of the issue arrived today when the American section of British newspaper The Guardian ran a comment column about hackers getting extradited. Following complaints about the prison rape joke in the concluding paragraph, it was…
The Guardian has published an interesting article about why it’s dropping the terms “child porn” or “child pornography” from its style guide. It’s a timely article considering that there always seems to be some kind of loaded language game going on when discussing child abuse survivors. For example we have some journalists reporting on “coming…
Patricia posted today about her 4th anniversary of blogging, and included a link to a recent radio show she was part of with other survivors/bloggers. If you’ve been around here any time at all, of course, you know the title of the show sparked my interest. I first started a website, those many years ago,…
Kate1975 has the latest edition, and at first glance, it seems like there are a lot of entries this month! Looking forward to reading them and getting some great insight from fellow survivors.
Last Saturday The Guardian published one of its regular Experience columns, this time describing the husband’s reaction to his wife being raped. That piece is here. Normally we just link and let you read the article. This one is different. The Guardian has had a long history of op-ed columns from non-staff contributors such as…
Received an email earlier today and wanted to pass it along for any survivors in New Zealand who might be interested in helping out. My name is Marilyn Kelly and I am putting filming a documentary in 2012 looking at the very high rate of child abuse in New Zealand. I want to dispel the…
