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Taking Action: Bystander Intervention Tools to Prevent Violence
I recently attended two bystander intervention trainings by Right To Be, a program out of New York. The first training in this series of three was on being a bystander to interrupt islamophobic violence, which I was unfortunately not able to attend. The second and...
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Beyond the numbers: why we don’t share stats for SAAM
During Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), many organizations share statistics about how sexual violence impacts different communities. We’ve done this in the past, and there are good reasons to share this kind of data. Understanding the scope of the problem can...
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Quiet or Loud: Creative Self-Advocacy with Healthcare Providers
Over the past four years, I've struggled with chronic illness more intensely than I had before. This became much more difficult to manage with increasing symptoms and a lack of support from family and institutions while I was in college, thousands of miles away from...
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Coping and Persistence: Trans Voices on Eating Disorder Recovery and State-Sanctioned Hate
Today marks the beginning of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. In the past, we’ve shared statistics about the prevalence of eating disorders in trans communities and perspectives from trans authors on eating disorders. This year, we want to acknowledge the...
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Intro to Trauma
What is trauma? Many survivors of sexual assault or intimate partner violence know that we’ve been through something terrible and that it has affected us. Some of us may use the word trauma to describe what happened or the impact. Some may not. Many...
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Asexuality, Aromanticism, and Introspection: Learning by questioning
I asked my team to switch the day we posted this, so it’d be around Valentine’s Day, which I think is hilarious. (Of course, they agreed – both to the change and that it’s funny.) It’s nice to laugh about something that used to stress me the eff out. On this blog, we...