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April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Are you aware of sexual assault? Cool, I guess we can assign some obscure cancer to April’s awarene...

I had so much fun being crafty and making gifts for friends and family this holiday season. I was also surprised and delighted to be the re...

Didn't I just have to do a little survivor self care last week for Five on Friday? Another week under this Administration means, unsurpr...

Hey survivors, I feel you this week. I feel your trauma and rage and depression. I feel your readiness to mobilize to action wi...

Hiking El Yunque rainforest in Puerto Rico . . . APRIL FOOLS! These are just some of the pictures that Facebook's On This Day h...

I feel like there's a lot of pressure to say YES. Say yes to your kids more, they're only young once! Say yes to helping with the ba...

Hi Guys. There's been a lot of talk this week of high-profile case of a powerful man sexually harassing and assaulting multiple wom...

Last week in my post for Sexual Assault Awareness month, I told you that I consider myself to be the luckiest survivor I know. I didn...

My survivor symbol: a wounded but soaring heart I don't feel like I can legitimately call myself an activist if I don't ackno...

Do we happen to have any nasty women here today?  Hello nasty women! Hello sister-resistors and persistors! Hello warr...

This essay originally appeared on Witty Bitches For two decades I said, “I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it.” ...

  *This essay also appears in an anthology of twenty-six essays entitled  My Brush With Death*   It used to be I didn’t kno...

I had such frustrating experiences lately trying to get some answers to some simple questions about staying safe after my rapist was releas...