Child sexual violence

Like every abused woman and child Black Americans reside in a county that pushes us to “move on“,  “get over it“, and “forgive and forget“. Heavy emphasis on the forget. …

You are seen. You are heard. Survivors are speaking in this moment.And when they speak, something important shifts. Not toward labels. Not toward debates.Not toward protecting identities that were never …

Adults. Adults can either create safety or harm.  We play a hand in upholding abusers and harmers of children. A larger part than we want to admit.  Not just in …

We arrived here because too many people rush to shield their favorite men instead of listening to the harmed. We can stop. Right now. We arrived here because discomfort feels …

This is how the rest of us end up in therapy for yearssss. Dealing with people who run to console, protect, and shield grown sturdy men and not hurting and …

Enough! Enough rushing to protect your favorite men. Isn’t that how we got here? There is a new trend here in the West and I hope it does not catch …

No. We are not doing that word-washing anymore. Not after what we had to read. Not after people had to live through…..or not live through. Calling children “underage women” or …

The silencing of survivors has never meant the absence of knowledge. It has meant control of the story. For generations, the loudest voices describing child sexual abuse were the voices …

When a child is sexually abused, too much of the truth gets twisted by more vocal and crafty adults.  And children and those who are now adults struggle with whether …

  There are stories we rarely let breathe. The stories of Black men who were once Black boys — hurt, silenced, told to “man up,” told that pain was weakness, …