February Carnival Against Child Abuse
Just noticed that it is up live over at Blessed Fearscapes. As always, looks like there is plenty of food for thought to check out, so please do!
Is any one else troubled by the idea that what happened in the Iraqi prisons is, rightfully, condemned far and wide as a human right’s abuse, while prison rape in our country is widespread and completely accepted, even joked about?
Pin We could also talk about abuse here too, and all the ways our stories all invalidated. How many of these have you heard from folks who find out about the abuse you dealt with as a child, or even as an adult:
“You were young, you’ll get over it” (Or you don’t remember it that well)
“Are you sure it was abuse?”
“I can’t imagine (abuser) doing that”
“Why didn’t you just leave?”
“How could you have let that happen?”
This month’s edition of the blog carnival marks the two year anniversary of Tracie taking it over. To mark the occasion she asks: Blogging is a courageous thing. We all take pieces of our stories, our hearts, the darkness we fight against and the light we strive towards, and we put it out there for…
Pin This year, I’m trying something new to provide as much privacy as possible while ensuring you see all the posts from the site: a Telegram channel. If you are a Telegram user, you can subscribe to the channel here – https://t.me/childabusesurvivor
Joe Navarro, in his Spycatcher blog, asks an important question about all the Woody Allen talk. Can we really separate someone’s art, or talent, from their character. Certainly, it seems like we go to great pains to do that, but should we? Consider this section of Joe’s article: The second concern that has not been…
I found myself reading this article about Queen Underwood, a female boxer represeting the US at the Olympics earlier today. The headline grabbed my attention, because she is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, but the story actually contained something I don’t see often, although I doubt she is alone in this. She admits to…
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