Leah pointed to an interesting blog that is all about Jewish survivors of sexual violence. While I’m not Jewish, I’ll be reading it and keeping an eye out for common issues that affect all survivors. 🙂
I’ll have more to say later, it’s been a crazy-busy couple of weeks but things should get a little closer to normal soon!
I’ve been spending some time coming up with this, and I think it’s finally ready to be unveiled. I’ve created a Social Network just for Survivors, and the folks who are trying to support and love survivors. To quote the “why” from the site: You may be asking yourself why create another social networking site?…
Pin “What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.” -Epictetus, Discourses, Book II, ch. 17 A couple of years back, I shared an article about learning based on this quote. I shared…
Pin Yes it’s true, I got another year older over the weekend. 😉 Yes it’s also true that my birthday is a holiday in the US, which is nice. 😉 This year was even more proof that having the internet and social media is pretty cool, because it allows me to have small interactions around birthday…
Pin I feel fairly certain I have never read a worse example of how certain worldviews will have to end up blaming the victim for their own suffering than this quote from an article about how we can fetishize “surviving” during difficult times, often taking more interest in things like the Holocaust:
Recently, a textbook required for the UNC minicourse “21st Century Wellness” was skewered for suggesting—as a headline read—“Holocaust victims who died failed to find their inner strength.” The actual text included: “The people in the camps who did not tap into the strength that comes from their intrinsic worth succumbed to the brutality to which they were subjected.”
I realize that this seems shocking that anyone would believe this, but I have a different take on it. Why wouldn’t some people believe this?
Pin Recently, an old friend started going through some old photo albums and scanning in the photos in order to share them on Facebook. She and I were in the same church group back in those days, and many of the photos, despite being a cringe-worthy reminder of some the things we did in our younger…
By now you’ve heard all about the riots that followed Ohio State’s victory over Michigan, but what you may not know is how common this sort of thing has become. This got greater media coverage because the game was for a spot in the Fiesta Bowl National Championship game so ESPN,CNN etc. were all in…
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