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 28, 2013 | Free, Our Stories Untold Blog
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...
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 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 | Feb 12, 2013 | Our Stories Untold Blog
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...
