by intoaccount | Nov 28, 2017 | Anabaptism/Mennonites, College & university focus
For too many college victims, reporting an assault to campus authorities is a scary, obstacle-laden process. At small colleges, where it can seem like everyone knows everyone, reporting can be particularly fraught. What if, for instance, your rapist is related to the...
by intoaccount | Oct 23, 2017 | Anabaptism/Mennonites, College & university focus, Education is Power, Survivors speak
When I sketched out the shape of our Education is Power series, I envisioned a three-part release of informative articles that could help people understand what is at stake for sexual violence survivors in an attack on Title IX. That was back in July. I had it planned...
by intoaccount | Oct 22, 2017 | Anabaptism/Mennonites, College & university focus
On October 5, Into Account’s staff sent the following letter to the administrators of U.S. Mennonite colleges, universities, and seminaries. The list of schools includes our personal alma maters, as well as schools attended by some of the survivors for whom we...
by intoaccount | Jun 13, 2017 | Anabaptism/Mennonites, Church focus
Into Account calls on Mennonite Church USA to remove Virginia Mennonite Conference Minister Clyde Kratz from the search committee for the new Executive Director of Mennonite Church USA, and to replace him with a member MC USA Panel on Sexual Abuse Prevention. Take...
by intoaccount | Jun 12, 2017 | Anabaptism/Mennonites, LGBTQ+ justice
This piece is dedicated to queer folks, especially queer people of color, and survivors of sexual and spiritual abuse – may we have spaces to thrive and honor all of our identities. On the one year anniversary of the mass murder at Pulse Nightclub, Into Account...
by intoaccount | Apr 22, 2017 | Anabaptism/Mennonites, College & university focus
“Launch Your Future,” EMU’s website shouts in bold capital letters, as they prepare to hand a social work degree to a student who has – by EMU’s own finding – committed sexual violence. Continuing Eastern Mennonite University...
