Junot Diaz Broke His Silence and It Brought Me to Tears
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” Rumi In his article in the April 16, 2018 issue of the New Yorker, Author and Pulitzer-Prize winner Junot Diaz breaks his years of silence about being sexually assaulted as a child. His heart-rending account, which...
From Outrage to Forgiveness and Healing
Wispy memories: My father fondling me when I was a toddler. Dragging me around my room by my ankles when I was twelve while, in my mind’s eye, my mother is downstairs in the kitchen calmly drinking a martini. I had no voice, no protection, no power. Sexual abuse tears...
Make the Invisible Visible
In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, I want to highlight the #SayHerName Campaign, which focuses on the need to call attention to police violence against Black women and women of color. This violence remains largely invisible and ignored in the media coverage...
Embrace Your Voice for Sexual Assault Awareness Month
The National Sexual Violence Resource Center has announced that the theme for this year's Sexual Awareness Month is “Embrace Your Voice.” For all women and girls to be able to embrace their voices, however, we have to break the taboo on talking about sexual assault...
Own Your Life
Tracee Ellis Ross gave a powerful speech at Glamour's 2017 Women of the Year Summit. She spoke about how writing the words “My life is mine,” in her journal brought tears to her eyes. Writing those words, she realized she hadn’t been living her life as if it was her...
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