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 | Sep 22, 2012 | Free, Our Stories Untold Blog, Womenundersiege
This article originally appeared on Women Under Siege’s website. Please click here to see the original post. By Rachel Halder/Intern — September 21, 2012 A young woman about my age sits across from me at a table in a large house converted into an Ecuadoran...
by Rae Halder | Jun 22, 2012 | Free, Our Stories Untold Blog, Womenundersiege
This post originally appeared on Women Under Siege’s blog on July 20, 2012. Silence: A symptom that plagues all scenarios of sexualized violence, rape, and abuse, no matter what communities we’re addressing. In the Sudan conflict, rape was used to silence women....