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New Title for My Book Manuscript We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For, How Survivors Stood Up, Organized, and Fought Back Against Sexual Abuse My old proposed titles for my nonfiction book were OK. Here are a couple of previous titles: A Phoenix Emerges From the Ashes: The Rise of the Survivors’ Movement…
Read MoreThe Scope of Sexual Abuse It’s impossible to pinpoint when sexual abuse in human society began since it shows up in the earliest historical texts of every civilization. We do know that sexual abuse did not begin this decade, this century, or this millennium, as it is a social corruption of every civilization. Present…
Read MoreSeeking a Literary Agent I’m seeking representation for my nonfiction book, We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For, How Survivors Stood Up, Organized, and Fought Back Against Sexual Abuse. My book documents the last twenty-five years of activism by survivors of sexual abuse who created a social movement to end sexual violence and…
Read MoreJourney of Writing a Book – Two Years In Two years. Writing a book is slow. The analogy of a train starting from the station rings true–it starts slowly, but with time, it picks up steam and then barrels down the tracks. My writing started when I attempted to develop a documentary on the Survivors…
Read MoreA Book about the Survivors Movement For the previous two years, I have been writing a book about survivors of sexual violence emerging from the shadows to build a powerful social movement to challenge centuries of abuse and exploitation. My book celebrates the creation of a powerful social movement that emerged in the last twenty…
Read MoreSurvivors of sexual violence emerged from the shadows to build a powerful social movement to challenge centuries of abuse and exploitation. The growing influence of survivors has compelled reforms in law, social relations, and culture. In the recent period, survivors expanded political power as it reformed laws in thirty states and prompted dozens of states…
Read MoreSexual Abuse Survivors Create a Movement The Movement for Respect and Dignity Emerges Survivors of sexual abuse are creating a new movement from their furious, decades-long struggle to end rape and sexual abuse. They have stood up and bravely told their story. No longer will they remain quiet. They demand respect and dignity. Movement for…
Read MoreTaking the Struggle from ‘Us and Them’ to ‘Community versus Predators & Predator Institutions’ A Hundred Questions in Ten Steps – An theoretical thought essay on messaging, hegemony, ideology, and practice Introduction During my decades of social activism and political organizing, it has schooled me well. Three lessons I repeatedly learned, investigate, ask questions, and…
Read MoreMemories Overwhelm Horrific memories, nightmares, and other forms of PTSD symptoms can overwhelm survivors of childhood sexual abuse and become too painful to endure. The natural response of survivors overwhelmed by horrific memories is to bury the memories, cover them up, ignore them, push them away. Many try to flood the memories in drugs and…
Read MoreI Got There I was speaking with my daughter Maya recently. I mentioned to her that I came into my full self when I was 65. She replied, at least you got there. True that. Some may not understand what I mean by my true self. For decades I buried painful memories of being raped…
Read MoreThe video, Organizing Within your Community, was a SNAP presentation I made at the SNAP Conference in 2020. How do you contact survivors and help them forward. Survivors of sexual abuse have changed the world. We are no longer in the background. Courageous survivors have commanded the high ground through courage, dedication, and endurance. There…
Read MoreThe Politics of Bizarre Conspiracies of Q-Anon The Q-Anon cabal has a political agenda to destabilize society. This gang of conspiracists uses the righteous outrage of child sexual abuse and sex trafficking to enflame emotion and fear. The emotional turmoil gives the conspiracists a platform to use fear and outrage as a tool to advance…
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