by Rae Halder | Mar 19, 2013 | Our Stories Untold Blog
It’s been a whirlwind of a week for an activist set out to “end rape.” And it’s only Tuesday. Though I’ve been following the Steubenville situation since a New York Times article came out in December, which provoked this piece on victim-blaming, I still haven’t been...
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 Rae Halder | Feb 28, 2013 | Free, Our Stories Untold Blog
I get it. Politics are divisions that create rifts in families and relationships. Having firm political beliefs makes it difficult to see the ideals behind a law or policy. Personally, I do not want politics to become a conversation or point of contention for Our...
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 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...
