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One billion women violated: Are you rising?
One in three women on the planet will be raped, beaten, sexually coerced, trafficked or otherwise abused in her lifetime. That's one billion women. One billion women violated is an atrocity. But what if that number - one billion - decided to stand up and rise against...
How men are necessary in the movement to end sexualized violence
“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...
Rape: Do you care?
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...
Our Daughter Was Sexually Abused
Sexualized violence and abuse is often covered up due to shame, embarrassment, or just plain ignorance in how to handle the problem. One contributing story on Our Stories Untold describes how a woman's Mennonite family purposefully hid her abuse from the rest of the...
Purity, lust and religion: How Christianity confuses rape with sex
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...
What would you do to end rape in 2013?
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...
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