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Steubenville Reflection Series: A Mennonite Pastor’s Open Letter to the Youth of Her Churches
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...
Steubenville Reflection Series: The Importance of Collective, Collaborative, and Diverse Ideas
“Would you say destroying the planet is just as bad as raping a person? Is putting toxic chemicals into our water just as bad as putting toxic chemicals into a person so you can rape them?” Bombarded by these questions (plus many more) from a new acquaintance at a...
Thoughts on Steubenville: Calling for collective writing submissions
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...
Letter to a professor: Please be conscious of the lessons you teach about rape
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...
VAWA passed the House today: Love for all women won out
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...
How to frame sexualized violence for teens
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...
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