Tag: Sexual Abuse

Reflecting on the adversities and victories of her youth, Emi Nietfeld interrogates how narratives of resilience minimize suffering.

Kathleen McKitty Harris recalls the series of events which led to her departure from the Church.

A list of longreads to make sense of ‘Leaving Neverland.’

Decades after a childhood sexual assault, Saidee Sonnenberg tries to make sense of what happened.

Personal assistant? Start-up founder? Professional long-lost sister? No, Southern Baptist pastor.

When we hear “sexual abuse” we think “women and girls.” But Hollywood’s boy actors are suffering in a different way.

Aly Raisman is a six-time Olympic medalist. She’s a survivor of abuse at the hands of Larry Nassar. And now, she’s an activist.

Chelsea G. Summers considers the ways in which outwardly ‘progressive’ men like former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman use kink as a cover for abuse.

Tricia Romano considers what speaking out about abuse at the hands of Eric Schneiderman has cost a close friend.

A robust local media is important to rooting out corruption, but so is a well-informed electorate.

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

All they really wanted was to avoid getting into trouble for stealing a package of cigarettes.

The momentum is happening and it’s exhausting for women.

Institutions like to plead ignorance whenever allegations of sex abuse become public, but they’re often complicit.

Michele Filgate reflects on her teen years with an abusive stepfather and a mother whose silence protected him.

Mary O’Connell recalls her college efforts to write about a scandalized priest from her youth.

Paul Mason lost 700 lbs. after bariatric surgery and finds happiness elusive; dramatic weight loss does nothing to treat the underlying depression and emotional trauma that caused him to eat to excess in the first place.

In a short essay for Time, playwright and activist Eve Ensler writes about simultaneously understanding many women’s difficulty calling out abusive fathers—like her own and alleged rapist Bill Cosby—and being frustrated with a culture that protects beloved, powerful patriarchs while vilifying and portraying as liars the women who speak out against them: I think of […]

The secret history of sexual abuse inside New York’s Horace Mann School: Speaking calmly and staring into the flames, he told us that when he was in eighth grade, Wright sexually assaulted him. ‘And not just me,’ he added. ‘There were others.’ First Wright befriended him, he said. Then he molested him. Then he pretended […]