Abuse. It’s the gift that keeps on giving.
It’s sad, but it’s true, there are always going to be little “triggering” events that bring back all the fear and all the helpless feelings. The real key is recognizing them for what they are and reacting appropriately. That takes a long time to learn, I’m sure.
The second edition is up! Looks like there is plenty of good reading material in there. Hopefully, I’ll have time to poke around in it soon!
Getting in my last minute submission for this month’s Carnival Against Child Abuse, on the subject of memorials. Memory is a weird subject for abuse survivors. Some of us struggle to even remember the details of what happened, while others remain obsessed and haunted by every little detail. The one thing that all of us…
Pin It pains me to know that so many survivors spend their adult lives in isolation and shame because they don’t know other survivors around them. This is why telling our stories when we can, is so important. No one should spend most of their adult life ashamed of surviving abuse. Those of us who are in a position to share our story and the statistics about abuse can change that. You can change that by sharing those stories and those statistics, shedding light on a subject we spend too much time trying to avoid. That light saves lives.
I’ve started doing a little side project for the P. Luna Foundation, helping to promote their work to raise awareness for male abuse survivors. The foundation is promoting Male Abuse Awareness Week on various outlets, and I’m helping out with their Google Plus page. So, if you’re a Google Plus user, I’ll be sharing information…
Pin I have been on record saying that if you truly believe in a cause, and the importance of it, you need to be the first to call out untruths.
I’ve said it about false rape allegations, false child abuse allegations, fake hate crimes, etc.
If you believe rape, abuse, and hate crimes are big issues that our society needs to be concerned with, and that the victims need to believed, you need to be the first to call it out when someone undermines the issue by spreading false stories.
So, while it may cost me some followers, let me just say this. If you believe QAnon conspiracy theories about elite pedophile gangs and sex trafficking rings with zero proof aside from some seeming coincidences with a bunch of half-true facts, and go spreading them around, you are undermining the very serious issue we have in society with actual, real pedophiles, elite and otherwise, and real, true to life, sex trafficking.
Someone linked to this blog and had a comment about it. Unfortunately the site that links to it is in Danish and none of the online translators do a very adequate job of telling me what this person is saying! I can take a guess, and I’m fairly sure it’s complimentary, but if anyone wants…
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