by intoaccount | Feb 18, 2022 | Anabaptism/Mennonites, Church focus, Plain people, social work, Survivors speak
Into Account is honored to have as colleagues, and to advocate for, a number of Plain and Amish people. And we’re especially honored to publish a Plain survivor’s story. Plain survivors face many barriers, including people from outside their context...
by Our Stories Untold | Dec 21, 2017 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Zeta Zeta (pseudonym) is a survivor of sexual abuse and rape both as a child and as an adult. She will be writing every now and then for Our Stories Untold, with a special focus on speaking to other survivors about everyday dynamics of struggle and peace that come...
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 Our Stories Untold | Aug 23, 2013 | Features, Free, Our Stories Untold Blog
by Faith Beauchemin **The following piece was sent to me by an Our Stories Untold reader. I found it so compelling that I received permission to repost it from Faith Beauchemin’s blog Roses and Revolutionaries, a blog well worth taking a look at. It was originally...
by Rae Halder | Dec 18, 2012 | Free, Our Stories Untold Blog
Yesterday I became overwhelmed by the news. First of all, the stories from Newtown, Connecticut are enough to make anyone’s stomach churn. Then my pain doubled when I opened a New York Times piece on a small town rape incident. A teenage girl, only 16-years-old, was...