PUSH/Precious: Nominated for Six Oscars!
2009 will be remembered as the year the walls came tumbling down. Rihanna’s story put cracks in the wall. Tyler Perry broke down the walls of silence surrounding child abuse, incest, […]
Tag Archives: sexual abuse
Bravo: Wynona Ward, 2010 CNN Hero
Wynona Ward Wynona Ward is an unlikely hero. She grew up in poverty and abuse in rural West Fairlee, Vermont. Her alcoholic father first sexually assaulted her when she was […]
My Mother Threw Me Under the Bus: I’ll Be Homeless Next Week
I thought I’d be celebrating the new year tonight. My humble and obscure little web site hit 12,000 visitors yesterday ~ 2,400 of you in December. Wow! Thank you! I […]
Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: Mary J. Blige
I’m Mary J. Blige and I’m telling you you don’t have to be ashamed. – Mary J. Blige Mary J. Blige is empowering women with this message in her music, her […]
Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: Clara Ward of Erie, PA
Clara Ward’s story was featured on last night’s edition of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Ms. Ward, age 70, operates Clara’s Way, a youth development and family center, in Erie, PA for […]
What if it was your daughter?
“What if it was your daughter?” There isn’t a domestic violence or rape survivor who hasn’t asked this question. So many of us face callous indifference. We feel like the girl […]
Rape Survivor Confronts Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) Over Rape of Halliburton Employee in Iraq
“What if it was your daughter who was raped? Would you tell her to be quiet and take it? Would you tell your daughter to be silent?” A brave rape […]
Kate’s Couch Session Four: Bastille Day
Mt. St. Helens in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State blew up the same day as my marriage: May 18, 1980. My father passed away on Bastille Day, 2005. Bastille […]
Fuzzy Math: When Is 200,000 Greater than 1.3 Million?
In October. Advertising Age, the bible of advertisers and marketers in the US, has hundreds of articles about how linking a product to breast cancer awareness will boost sales. Their editors and subscribers […]
Minimizing Rape: Phillips, Letterman, and Polanski
Young girls and women who experience incest, sexual molestation, and sexual harassment carry scars that never, ever quite heal. We tell ourselves that the sex was consensual because we can’t […]
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