by Rae Halder | Mar 24, 2013 | Free, Our Stories Untold Blog, Steubenville
“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...
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 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 10, 2013 | Free, Our Stories Untold Blog
“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...