Disability and Chronic Illness

Updated for WeSurviveAbuse.com, 2025 Let’s return to this uncomfortable truth: when victims of sexual violence recant, it is often not because the crime didn’t happen.It’s because the world they’ve been …

By a Survivor Who Now Understands Why the Caged Bird Sings I’ve always been a voracious reader. Since as far back as I can remember, my mother required that all …

So every night my mother would come to tuck me in at night.   Every night without fail. And every night without fail, this would happen. She would come to my bed,  …

Update:  I published this during the summer months (2015). It spread across quite a few websites and I got a great deal of positive feedback. However, some parents & caretakers …

  Yes, it’s summer again. And while many of us are focused on camps, cookouts, rest, and routine changes—some people are focused on your children.I’m talking about predators—those who harm …

 Updated 8 21 2025  original March 2016 About sixteen years ago, I was sitting in service while Pastor Lance Watson preached a sermon on relationships. To be honest, I wasn’t …

There are people—loud and determined—who would have you believe that the systemic rape of women of color ended with slavery.That is a lie. A harmful, deliberate lie. Survivors know it.The …

Did I tell y’all about that time that they printed a speech  I delivered in public in the paper?  Well, that isn’t even the most interesting part.  The most interesting …

According to the CDC:   In 2013 (the most recent year for which full data are available), 41,149 suicides were reported, making suicide the 10th leading cause of death for Americans. …