by Our Stories Untold | Mar 25, 2013 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Steubenville
by Sylvia Klauser This is the second post in the Steubenville Reflection Series featured on Our Stories Untold the week of March 24-29. Upon reflection of the events that happened in Steubenville, Ohio, Sylvia Klauser wrote the following open letter to the youth of...
by Our Stories Untold | Mar 7, 2013 | Features, Our Stories Untold Blog
by Maggie Gilman Note from the editor, Rachel Halder: Maggie Gilman, a close friend of mine from Goshen College, was taking a psychology course at a local community college in Oregon. She relayed the following story to me and I encouraged her to share it with the...
by Our Stories Untold | Feb 18, 2013 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Stories
From Editor Rachel Halder: Sharing a story of personal abuse, rape, or sexualized violence is an incredibly difficult, yet courageous, undertaking. This entry is a re-post of a recent anonymous submission in the Our Stories Untold “Stories” section of the...
by Our Stories Untold | Feb 17, 2013 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Uncategorized
I was 15 when it happened. I would be 16 in about a week. Or maybe two weeks. I have a sense that it happened at the end of November, but it’s really not more than a sense. None of my story is much more than a sense, actually. It’s easy to convince...
by Our Stories Untold | Feb 12, 2013 | Our Stories Untold Blog
One in three women on the planet will be raped, beaten, sexually coerced, trafficked or otherwise abused in her lifetime. That’s one billion women. One billion women violated is an atrocity. But what if that number – one billion – decided to stand up...