by Hilary Jerome Scarsella | Jul 27, 2016 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Stories
On Monday of this week, M.G. shared her experience of the rape and abuse she survived while a student at Eastern Mennonite University, as well as the university’s response when she reported the violence. If you read the story, you know that M.G’s courage...
by Our Stories Untold | Jul 25, 2016 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Stories
by M.G. This post has been a long time coming, not that I haven’t written about it or spoken about it before, but I’ve never written about it or spoken about it in this depth, to this wide of an audience. As more comes to light about Eastern Mennonite University’s...
by intoaccount | Jul 6, 2016 | Church focus
by Stephanie Krehbiel One of the toughest questions in advocacy work is this: When is it worthwhile to talk to powerful people within the institutions in which you’re trying to enact change, and when is it not? There are no easy answers to that question....
by Stephanie Krehbiel | Oct 6, 2015 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Svmc Blog
This cross-post by Stephanie Krehbiel originally appeared in the opinion section on The Mennonite’s website on October 5, 2015. In August, together with 10 other Mennonite or formerly Mennonite advocates for survivors of sexual violence, I attended the...
by Our Stories Untold | Aug 9, 2015 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Anonymous “There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” —Audre Lorde My assailants told me I was cute, that I was beautiful and small, that I was sweetness, that my hair was soft, that I looked innocent. My assailant told...