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Posted inCuration, Nonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads August 5, 2022October 19, 2022

This week, our editors recommend longreads by Janelle Nanos, Paloma Pacheo, Radley Balko, Claire McNear, and Tad Friend.

Posted inNonfiction

If My Scars Could Talk

by Tega Oghenechovwen January 2, 2020December 30, 2022

Tega Oghenechovwen contemplates the ways in which acute childhood trauma can infect and compromise relationships later in life.

Posted inCulture, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

To Protect Children from Sexual Abuse, the Catholic Church Must Eliminate the Clergy

by Aaron Gilbreath May 29, 2019October 19, 2022

One ex-priest shows how the clergy lies at the root of the Catholic Church’s problems.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Where the Trouble Started

by Sari Botton March 6, 2019October 19, 2022

In this personal essay, decades after a childhood sexual assault, Saidee Sonnenberg tries to make sense of what happened.

Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Scholar of Mazes: Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse

by Krista Stevens December 3, 2018October 19, 2022

“I stepped forward into a darkness that I’m still trying to find my way out of more than 40 years later.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Sober Gay Man Seeks…What, Exactly, He’s No Longer Sure

by Sari Botton April 12, 2018October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which Breaking the Ruhls author, Larry Ruhl, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse now in recovery, finds himself adrift in the age of hookup apps.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

Sober Gay Man Seeks…What, Exactly, He’s No Longer Sure

by Larry Ruhl April 12, 2018October 19, 2022

A survivor of childhood sexual abuse now in recovery, Larry Ruhl finds himself adrift in the age of hookup apps.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction

Sober Gay Man Seeks…What, Exactly, He’s No Longer Sure

by Larry Ruhl April 12, 2018October 19, 2022

A survivor of childhood sexual abuse now in recovery, Larry Ruhl finds himself adrift in the age of hookup apps.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Letters to My Molester: Unraveling a Decade of Childhood Abuse

by Krista Stevens April 24, 2017October 19, 2022

Karen Durrie examines the feelings of complicity that encouraged her to correspond with her attacker.

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