child-abuse
To Protect Our Children, We First Need to Heal Ourselves
The predatory men I engaged with recognized I was starved for connection. Our support structures need to realize this, too.
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How American Hero Narratives Keep Us From Solving Social Crises — or Healing
We insist on “rescuer” narratives at the expense of developing agency for our children and ourselves
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5 Things “Stranger Danger” Education Got Wrong, and 1 It Gets Right
How emphasizing “stranger danger” hamstrung a generation’s understanding of threats to child safety
child-abuse
How Generational Trauma Compounds Child and Intimate Partner Abuse
Learning to fit in and not make waves might have been considered a form of “practice” for adult womanhood. We paper over our needs, preferences, and sense of autonomy when we learn they’re antithetical to our survival.
child-abuse
Why It’s More Critical Now Than Ever to Tell Our “Not That Bad” Abuse Stories
Knowing what it looks, sounds, acts, and feels like before it becomes criminal can help us heal — and know what to look for. Our future may depend on it.
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How Undiagnosed ADHD Made Me Vulnerable to Predatory Grooming
Or, how intersectional feminism is crucial to child protection