Way back when I was in school, I learned that once people become adults, it’s all downhill brain-wise. Thank goodness, we have learned better! Brains change throughout life, and we have learned a lot about how to make changes we want to make. This time of social...
Books about sexual violence very rarely mention trans and non-binary survivors, which is why Intersections of Identity and Sexual Violence on Campus: Centering Minoritized Students’ Experiences, edited by Jessica C. Harris and Chris Linder (2017), stands out. The...
It can be tempting to believe that once a person has experienced mistreatment, they will recognize and avoid mistreating others. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work that way. #MeToo founder Tarana Burke recently admitted that she “still cringe[s]” when she...
Being alive in the 2000s, you almost certainly have heard of the benefits of mindfulness meditation (https://www.mindful.org/mindfulness-how-to-do-it/). As a transgender or non-binary survivor of domestic or dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, however, you...
Supporting the Trans Survivor: A Review of Disrupting the Bystander: When #MeToo Happens Among Friends Trauma, unfortunately, is widespread in the trans/non-binary community. Most of us have experienced serious harm – sexual assault, intimate partner violence, dating...
