I Want to Live, and Run with All the Wild Horses of Our Tribe.
Tonight we will run with the wild horses of our tribe streaking across the twilight sky, calling out our names and demanding the night to release us.
Browsing Tag:
abuse
Will You Still Look Away from Abuse?
He says he’s sorry. We look away. He’s a father. We look away. He’s active at church. We look away. What are we looking away from and why are we doing it?
Always a First: Fallout from a Difficult Childhood.
No one will convince me that the goings-on in our childhood didn't impact my brother's life in such a way that will forever be difficult to come back from.
It Counts, and You Deserve More.
I don't know what for, but it counts, whether it's domestic abuse, emotional violence, or simply an encaging of the female spirit.
I Am Sick of Being a Man.
In 'Walking Around', his lamentation of passivity, Neruda declares that his lack of care for the suffering of others made him "sick of being a man."
We Women Just Can’t Take a Joke, Can We?
This joke was not the product of haplessly old-fashioned, harmlessly sexist men. It was purposeful, deeply misogynistic violence, passed off as joking.
They Thought Their Art Would Protect Them.
Our job is to tell those stories so widely that we understand them reflexively. Only then can art finally move on... and expose other traumas.
The Magnitude of #MeToo: A Lifelong Curriculum in Cultivating Courage.
#MeToo means we’re human. We’re all full of confusion and delusion and fear. And the more we share, the more we move through our fear.
Brick by Brick: Rebuilding a Relationship with Your Body After Sexual Abuse.
The way to repair the home (the body) after sexual abuse is to stay. Don't get a new house. Don't throw it all out and away and try to outrun the past, for it is is always there.
An Open Letter to All of the Beautiful People with Scars like Mine.
I have learned that my scars, both internal and external, are not something to be ashamed of. My scars are proof that I survived.