(I don’t believe it. I just sent something without it being completed.)
Last time to finish -
I have worked as a licensed mental health therapist for over 30 years, starting my career at a rape crisis center and continue my advocacy and activism against violence towards women.
Although the agencies and practice I work for now since that time, does not specifically or exclusively treat trauma of sexual violence, the majority of my clients are survivors and female who have suffered one and or multiple
Crimes of sexual violence-As a child, as an adolescent, as a young adult , as an older adult. The trauma is lifelong. The impact is lifelong and on every aspect of life.
I believe Rape, Sexual assault, violence against women and girls- is the most ignored and biggest human rights atrocity and public health crisis we have in this country and in this world. We know it’s about power and control. We know that the patriarchal society and misogynist culture fuels it, condones it and is complacent in it.
I am so tired that this truth and bigger picture you so well addressed,
continues to be ignored in mainstream media, and other forms of media ,even by some journalist, writers , and even organizations or social activist groups I am involved in. I expect it to be addressed - and they often fail. It is very disillusioning.
And we have to keep fighting the good fight-
I am amazed at the Epstein survivors.
I am amazed at the women and the girls I have the privilege of supporting. It’s amazing to me that they can even “walk and talk” and they continue to fight for justice and acknowledgement of their humanity!
They matter.
Accountability matters.
And we have to address what the pervasive issues are that we are faced with every day and have been since the beginning of time.
I truly thank you for fighting alongside women and men for social change and speaking the truth!
You do such a great job at putting this out there !
@Jackson, you write: “ Women like these have platforms in parts of the online universe, but their work isn’t featured nearly enough in mainstream venues. Why don’t media outlets feature the perspectives of sexual assault prevention educators?”
As a woman, a survivor and a veteran war correspondent, an educator, writer and someone who works in this space, friends who are sex therapists, who work with DV — are not wanted: they can’t paint us & keep us in the blood. They want the story wo our pov, they want us to forever be bleeding while they control the narrative. There’s a saying among American media, if it bleeds it leads, have you heard this?
I’ve been inside the newsroom, there is plenty in house that is problematic in terms of male violences.
My own industry doesn’t really want to women like me be so damn open and dismantled, and expert educators on this very topic? Would offer a perspective with forward movement, friends of mine who are promoting this content. Along with our stories.
It is a hard truth. You’re talking about what’s missing from media voices, it’s women who have perspective and some of our male colleagues who could help us with that perspective to push forward and create solutions. Solution based media is rarely seen among mainstream legacy channels.
Thx, Ash. I agree. It's an uphill fight, in journalism as elsewhere, because, as you know, feminism disrupts and challenges the most basic structures of power, from the micro to the macro. Feminist women, like you, have known this, and experienced it, forever. I might add that profeminist men, like me, also struggle to have our ideas heard, for overlapping reasons. That's why most of my writing is published by Ms Magazine -- which obviously gets and champions the centrality of gender to our culture and politics -- and not the less feminist liberal and progressive outlets for social and political critique. Sigh.
Thank you for saying this—been trying to point this out. It shows how we don’t question how normalized rape and harm towards girls and women is. It’s the foundation stone of the whole damn thing we live in.
Yes, thank you Jackson for again ,hitting it on the head-and putting the bigger truth out there.
I also support and relate to the comments here-
120 percent!
I have started to write and written quite a bit here and lost it or deleted my comment by mistake- so this is the fourth time I am trying to text out my comment. I am very tech challenged and don’t do social media much. So apologies out there for that.
(I don’t believe it. I just sent something without it being completed.)
Last time to finish -
I have worked as a licensed mental health therapist for over 30 years, starting my career at a rape crisis center and continue my advocacy and activism against violence towards women.
Although the agencies and practice I work for now since that time, does not specifically or exclusively treat trauma of sexual violence, the majority of my clients are survivors and female who have suffered one and or multiple
Crimes of sexual violence-As a child, as an adolescent, as a young adult , as an older adult. The trauma is lifelong. The impact is lifelong and on every aspect of life.
I believe Rape, Sexual assault, violence against women and girls- is the most ignored and biggest human rights atrocity and public health crisis we have in this country and in this world. We know it’s about power and control. We know that the patriarchal society and misogynist culture fuels it, condones it and is complacent in it.
I am so tired that this truth and bigger picture you so well addressed,
continues to be ignored in mainstream media, and other forms of media ,even by some journalist, writers , and even organizations or social activist groups I am involved in. I expect it to be addressed - and they often fail. It is very disillusioning.
And we have to keep fighting the good fight-
I am amazed at the Epstein survivors.
I am amazed at the women and the girls I have the privilege of supporting. It’s amazing to me that they can even “walk and talk” and they continue to fight for justice and acknowledgement of their humanity!
They matter.
Accountability matters.
And we have to address what the pervasive issues are that we are faced with every day and have been since the beginning of time.
I truly thank you for fighting alongside women and men for social change and speaking the truth!
You do such a great job at putting this out there !
Please don’t stop!
-Chris
@Jackson, you write: “ Women like these have platforms in parts of the online universe, but their work isn’t featured nearly enough in mainstream venues. Why don’t media outlets feature the perspectives of sexual assault prevention educators?”
As a woman, a survivor and a veteran war correspondent, an educator, writer and someone who works in this space, friends who are sex therapists, who work with DV — are not wanted: they can’t paint us & keep us in the blood. They want the story wo our pov, they want us to forever be bleeding while they control the narrative. There’s a saying among American media, if it bleeds it leads, have you heard this?
I’ve been inside the newsroom, there is plenty in house that is problematic in terms of male violences.
My own industry doesn’t really want to women like me be so damn open and dismantled, and expert educators on this very topic? Would offer a perspective with forward movement, friends of mine who are promoting this content. Along with our stories.
It is a hard truth. You’re talking about what’s missing from media voices, it’s women who have perspective and some of our male colleagues who could help us with that perspective to push forward and create solutions. Solution based media is rarely seen among mainstream legacy channels.
Thx, Ash. I agree. It's an uphill fight, in journalism as elsewhere, because, as you know, feminism disrupts and challenges the most basic structures of power, from the micro to the macro. Feminist women, like you, have known this, and experienced it, forever. I might add that profeminist men, like me, also struggle to have our ideas heard, for overlapping reasons. That's why most of my writing is published by Ms Magazine -- which obviously gets and champions the centrality of gender to our culture and politics -- and not the less feminist liberal and progressive outlets for social and political critique. Sigh.
Hear you. Glad you’re here. I get it. And it is also why we all have to find a way to come together in these spaces to keep pushing…
Thank you for saying this—been trying to point this out. It shows how we don’t question how normalized rape and harm towards girls and women is. It’s the foundation stone of the whole damn thing we live in.
Absolutely the "foundation stone," Made of Myth! Thx.
Yes, thank you Jackson for again ,hitting it on the head-and putting the bigger truth out there.
I also support and relate to the comments here-
120 percent!
I have started to write and written quite a bit here and lost it or deleted my comment by mistake- so this is the fourth time I am trying to text out my comment. I am very tech challenged and don’t do social media much. So apologies out there for that.