Hearing a story about sexual assault can make you feel really powerless. Maybe you read my story here or heard a story at a Take Back the Night, and you felt moved, a little astounded to hear the words spoken out loud, supportive but a little lost.
Sexual assault is a crime of power and […]
On Monday, I spoke at UMass Boston’s Take Back the Night as a part of the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center’s survivor speaker bureau. The speakers bureau has been a great way to tell my story for the purpose of breaking silence, dispelling myths, and educating the community about the realities of sexual assault.
BARCC’s training for this program […]
Feeling like a working mom rockstar. This may be my first home cooked meal in a weeknight since baby!
I just had coffee with one of the many amazing and soon to be college graduates in my life. She suggested that I write down my snippets of apparent wisdom that I have picked up over the years. Here they are in all their (hopefully) glory:
You are not going to change the world by […]
One of the most powerful tools we can provide for survivors of sexual assault and abuse is hope. When facing the pain and suffering that accompanies sexual violence, hope can seem like a distant joke. As friends and family of survivors, as members of a community that does not tolerate sexual violence, and as […]
As a survivor of sexual assault and abuse, I watched the media coverage of the allegations against Sandusky and administrators at Penn State unfold with fascination and disgust. There were lots of stories published about lots of different people, and through it all, one person stood out to me: John Surma. While I am […]
Last week, I received an email from a name I didn’t recognize. M said he was a student at Ralston Middle School. He thought I had done a presentation at his school and was writing to let me know that he planned on counting the number of times
i get called a bad name, get […]
I love the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center’s annual Walk for Change. It’s an event for survivors of sexual violence, their family and friends, and advocates. This year, I’m walking with my husband and 8-month old baby boy. I want to teach my son how to be a compassionate friend to people who are […]
I just bought Stephen Levine's book, A Year to Live. In this book, Levine explores what it is like to live in the face of death. He chronicles his personal journey of imagining his own death, and how deepening his relationship to death brought him more fully into his own life.In these past few […]