Experiencing sexual violence can be physically and emotionally tolling. You might feel isolated, ashamed or scared. Trusting someone else or being vulnerable again may feel challenging. Intimacy after having gone through a traumatic event can feel…
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Photo credit: Take Back The Night Foundation While scrolling through my Facebook timeline recently, I saw that some of my friends were interested in an event called “Take Back the Night.” I’d heard about it in previous years but was […]
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Recently at one of our Sex, Etc. teen editorial staff meetings, I watched Jennifer Baumgardner’s documentary It Was Rape. The film focuses on the lives of eight different women from different walks of life who all share one common thing: […]
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In October 2011, Grace Brown, a student at New York School of Visual Arts, started a project she calls “Project Unbreakable,” a photo blog that shows sexual abuse and assault victims holding up signs of quotes from their abusers and […]
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One weekend I went to a soccer game by myself. Sure, I knew some of the people there, but I really didn’t feel all that safe in a crowd of strangers. I had my phone on me. Wouldn’t it be […]
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