by Our Stories Untold | Nov 14, 2016 | Free, Our Stories Untold Blog, Svmc Blog
by Janice Batts Editor’s Note: I met Janice Batts on Facebook messaging. She was very angry with the Mennonite Church. She was angry like Jesus-turning-over-tables-in-the-temple kind of angry. My good white Mennonite privilege was offended. I was repulsed by her...
by Our Stories Untold | Sep 28, 2016 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Kishundra D. King This is the third post in OSU’s fall blog series on sexualized violence and race. Today’s post is offered by Kishundra D. King. She is both a crisis counselor who works with Black women and children survivors of abuse and a researcher...
by Hilary Jerome Scarsella | Aug 27, 2016 | Our Stories Untold Blog
Everybody knows that it’s not ok to talk about what a person was wearing when they were sexually assaulted, because that, my friends, is victim blaming. But, how do we talk about what a person was drinking? A while back, I saw several comments on the blog in a row...
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...