by Our Stories Untold | Apr 21, 2014 | Healing Free, Our Stories Untold Blog
by Angela Marie Carter Butterfly in Reverse (a poem from my upcoming book, Memory Chose A Woman’s Body) I had wings. Once. They seemed no different than human hands until plucked. Reluctantly. Along the mantelpiece, beside a twenty dollar bill— the world,...
by Our Stories Untold | Feb 9, 2014 | Features, Our Stories Untold Blog
by Kristin Neufeld Epp Editor’s Note: The following piece was first published February 4, 2014 on Kristin’s blog “Praire Daize.” She also submitted a sexual abuse story to our stories section which can be seen here. no feeling is final. -rilke...
by Our Stories Untold | Dec 31, 2013 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Svmc Blog
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” Rumi The words of Rumi the Sufi poet have always attracted my mystic mind, and as I reflect on the transition of 2013 to 2014 I’m once again struck...
by Our Stories Untold | Dec 16, 2013 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Uncategorized
“Consent requires that a person have all the necessary information to make a decision and the power to choose and have that choice respected by others. The possibility of authentic consent rests upon equality of power in a relationship. Consent should never be...
by Our Stories Untold | Dec 4, 2013 | Features, Our Stories Untold Blog
by Claire DeBerg Our Stories Untold is honored to cross-post–with permission–a letter to Tamar from Claire DeBerg, originally posted on Mennonite Women Voices, the blog of Mennonite Women USA. ______________________ The following is a message I, Claire...