This is How a Poem Comes to Life by @cstreetlights
I’m honored to have Gravity Imprint author C. Streetlights here today with us to share her story. Look for C’s amazing book, Tea and Madness, out now! I never told anyone the specifics of what had...
View ArticleThe Other Boleyn Girl: A Frustratingly Wrong Portrayal of Rape by...
There’s a right way and a wrong way to write historical fiction. Remember the heaps of glory for Reign? That was a right way. This month is, annoyingly, about the wrong way. The oh-so-wrong-way it...
View ArticleThe Reasons Hollywood Has A Pedophile Problem by @willvanstonejr
*Trigger Warning* So a few months ago, I rediscovered one of the best bad horror films I’d ever seen. When I first watch Clownhouse, I must’ve been ten-ish and on my friend’s beat-up sofa munching...
View ArticleOnce Upon a Time: Ignoring Rape in a Modern Fairytale by @willvanstonejr
The other day, I was happily watching the latest episode of ABC’s Once Upon a Time when Zelena/The Wicked Witch, Regina/Evil Queen’s half-sister, was allowed to see the baby she’d recently given birth...
View ArticleWhen I Said No: How Family Abuse Creates Trauma by @Wholisticmuse
***Trigger Warning*** Non-explicit mention of sexual abuse, secondary trauma He hurt me on a fall afternoon in the nineties. I was seventeen and he was more than two decades older. Everyone knew him...
View ArticleDear Abby: Reinforcing Rape Culture is REALLY Bad Advice by @willvanstonejr
Guest post by staff writer Will Van Stone, Jr. I’ve been a fan of yours for a while now and have enjoyed your wit and wisdom on many a morning. I haven’t always agreed with every word you typed but...
View ArticleWhen the Accused are More Valuable than Their Accusers
by staff writer Will Van Stone, Jr. As I’ve bitched about before, anyone who makes Hollywood piles of cash can get away with very bad things and not be destroyed like their victims, who are more...
View ArticleWhat if Allegations of Sexual Assault are False? by @KW_Writes
“What if the allegations of sexual assault or abuse are false?” This is the question proposed during a conversation I had recently with a good friend of mine. Domestic and sexual assault have been...
View ArticleForcing Victims to Speak Won’t Stop Rape by @willvanstonejr
Forcing Victims to Speak Won’t Stop Rape Georgia politicians think they’ve found the answer to their state’s rape college problem. It’s called HB 51 and it basically says that anyone a college student...
View ArticleThis is the Reason I Started #WhySurvivorsDontReport and Why it Matters Now
Regardless of where you stand on the Cosby mistrial, you have no doubt heard about it. It’s unavoidable right now. And that’s okay. This is a necessary conversation whether you are a survivor or not....
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