by Rae Halder | Feb 25, 2013 | Free, Our Stories Untold Blog
As a young woman in high school, I engaged in sexual acts that I didn’t necessarily want to do. This wasn’t just out of pressure—though that component definitely existed—but it was also due to a curiosity about sex. Lacking any sort of community or safe place in which...
by Our Stories Untold | Feb 10, 2013 | Free, Our Stories Untold Blog
“Most men in their lives will not commit sexual violence, but most acts of sexual violence are committed by men.” Joe Campbell from Calgary Communities Against Sexual Abuse In order to end sexualized violence against women, children and men, we need men. To end child...
by Our Stories Untold | Jan 31, 2013 | Features, Free, Our Stories Untold Blog
by Sarah Davies About the author: Sarah graduated from Messiah College in December 2009 with a B.A. in Human Development & Family Science. She currently works full-time in the mental health field but will soon be transitioning to full-time farming with a local...
by Rae Halder | Jan 8, 2013 | Free, Our Stories Untold Blog
When I was 15-years-old I was invited to attend a Baptist summer camp. Growing up Mennonite I had never been exposed to overt “savior” language, nor had I previously received such direct and controlling gendered messages. At this camp I was told it was a women’s...
by Rae Halder | Jan 4, 2013 | Free, Our Stories Untold Blog, Womenundersiege
When I got annoyed with the fact that sexualized violence is a stigmatized and sensitive subject in the Mennonite Church, I began this blog. When Gloria Steinem learned that rape was a widely used and unspoken method of torture, and a result of the Holocaust, she...
by Rae Halder | Dec 18, 2012 | Free, Our Stories Untold Blog
Yesterday I became overwhelmed by the news. First of all, the stories from Newtown, Connecticut are enough to make anyone’s stomach churn. Then my pain doubled when I opened a New York Times piece on a small town rape incident. A teenage girl, only 16-years-old, was...
