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!
Pin Which brings us to Daisy. She did not get her justice from the court system, quite the opposite. But, she did something else that many assume is a sign of “being healed”, she found her voice. She told her story, she had a movie made where she could speak her truth to the whole world. Surely, that is healed, right?
As we now know, that probably wasn’t the case. I assume that many people who watched that documentary went on to become fans of Daisy, admiring her for having the courage to tell her story, happy for her that she was able to overcome, but that had nothing to do with the reality of what surviving actually is.
The coincidence that I spoke of came this morning, when I popped over to Twitter during a quick coffee break, and saw Rachel Denhollander, another survivor who’s made an appearance in a documentary, Athlete A, on her involvement with the Larry Nasser case, talking about this article:
Daisy Coleman’s Death Lays Bare the Myth of ‘Surviving
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?…
This afternoon, one of the folks I follow on Twitter regularly, Jennifer Leggio, wrote a blog post about the loss of her father. Even though she hadn’t seen him in 30 years, his death was hard on her: Because over the last year I’ve had one too many people say to me, “If you hadn’t…
This month’s theme is “birthdays”, and the carnival just keeps on growing. Looks like yet another large collection of posts! Head over to Issue Knitting and check for yourself! It should give us plenty to read for the weekend.
From Leah today, Seven Commandments for Survivors. Excellent stuff to think about and apply to your own healing right now!
I got an email today from Pat McDonald of Project82.com. They are providing a place for abuse survivors to file a confidential report so that prosecutors can find them as they research possible victims of a molester. In their own words: Project82 and The National Sexual Assault Report Database is the brain child of Katie…
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