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1in6 Thursday: Why Am I Still Not Healed?
Working Together to End the Rape Kit Backlog
1in6 Thursday: Life after Acceptance
1in6 Thursday: Boys Become Men
I spoke recently with a group of college men whose fraternity had been sanctioned for sexually offensive attitudes and behavior. Our discussion was part of a mandated remedy. Not surprisingly, mandated conversations often don’t lead immediately to open dialogue.
Efforts to educate men about sexual violence generally cast them in one of two roles: bystanders, either preventing or supporting sexually aggressive behavior, speech or attitudes; or as perpetrators of violence.
1in6 Thursday: Did It Really Happen?
1in6 Thursday: Behold the Turtle
1in6 Thursday: An Open Letter to Our Readers
Dear 1in6 Thursday Blog Readers,
The Joyful Heart Foundation and 1in6 graciously provided me with a venue this past year in which I was able to share my voice on behalf of the voiceless – the male survivors of childhood sexual abuse whose voices are silenced with threats of violence, the survivors whose screams are muted by the “man box” and the victims who are too afraid to speak. As one of this blog’s voices, I want to leave you in my final blog post with a message of both hope and challenge.
1in6 Thursday: Understanding My Abuser
When we think upon the abuse we suffered as children we are often consumed by feelings of pain and how they may continue to negatively affect us even into our present. It may be years before we consider, let alone care why our abuser may have done this to us. What made him/her the way that they are?