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 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 | 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 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...
