[PDF] Diary Of A Rape Survivor eBook

Author : Wiola Rebecka
Publisher : Rape a History of Shame Project
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,44 MB
Release : 2021-08-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780578939339

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Publicly speaking about sexual violence is a challenge. As humans, we tend to deny things that bring us discomfort. Especially talking about rape during conflict and war. People tend to struggle in finding ways to share the indescribable. Because the images and ideas associated with rape are so intense and disturbing, opportunities to create change and awareness through dialogue are a challenge at best. This cloak of silence, however, is what keeps rape and sexual violence alive and ominous. My ongoing work in the field as a therapist has brought me the opportunity to listen to war rape survivors' experiences. I have thus far heard over 200 accounts, which is a number steadily increasing. These brave women and girls allowed themselves to share with me something terrifying and previously unspeakable. Many have held on to their pain in silence, alone. They shared their humble beginnings, their ideals; and their stark realities during and following their rape, as well their aftermaths, and their healing. So many survivors have made the conscious choice of speaking out and being visible, even if they come from cultures that may be less than supportive to women who are the victims of sexual violence. Before I began work within the field of rape and sexual violence awareness, I was like many other people living in my own comfort bubble. Back then, I was insulated by my values. I pursued my ideas without a deeper understanding of the complexity of war rape survivors' physical, emotional and social experiences, as well as the complex trauma that they were struggling with. Working with war-rape survivors quickly popped my comfort bubble. I realized my own tendency to deny sources of discomfort. I started to confront myself with the overwhelming reality that war-rape survivors face every single day. Listening to survivors' experiences and working with them as they address their trauma confronted me with the realities that rape survivors face, that their healing process starts from within, mentally and physically, but must continue outward, repairing their bonds and trust within their families, communities, and cultural institutions as well.

Author : Patricia Weaver Francisco
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 2000-01-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780060930769

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She invites the reader into her life and into the questions raised by a crime with no obvious solutions or easy answers. We see the dimensions of a human struggle often kept hidden from view. While there are an estimated twelve million rape survivors in the United States, rape is still unspeakable, left out of our personal and cultural conversation. In Telling, Francisco has found a language for the secret grief carried by men and women who have survived rape.

Author : Amy Herdy
Publisher : Amy Herdy
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,69 MB
Release : 2011-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0983180229

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This groundbreaking tour de force presents the gripping, true account of one of America's most notorious serial rapists and the tough female journalist assigned to cover his case. Following an exhaustive manhunt and his capture in 2005, Brent Brents sent letters and his journal to Denver Post reporter Amy Herdy-with the condition that she alone tell his story. Here, then, in his raw and uncensored words, Brents reveals shocking details about his childhood abuse and the monstrous acts he later committed. Going way beyond just the facts, he gives us an unprecedented look inside the twisted mind of a sociopath. At the same time, Amy has a personal story to tell. Rocked to the core by Brents' disturbing case, she sets out to understand this ruthless criminal only to be confronted with her own troubled past. Ultimately, she must make a choice that will change her life forever.

Author : Bee Goldsmith
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,39 MB
Release : 2021-06-22
Category :
ISBN :

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Would you report a date rape? What if the perpetrator was someone you knew? Someone you were dating? And someone you were in love with? Bee Goldsmith is a date rape survivor. Diary of a Date Rape is a fictional diary about the trauma and emotional complexities surrounding date rape. Bee has written this book to help men, women and young adults guard themselves against sexual abuse in dating relationships. Bee hopes Diary of a Date Rape will help other survivors feel less alone on the road to recovery.. Trigger warning: contains scenes of a sexual nature, sexual violence, drug references. 10% of profits from the book will be donated to charities that work with survivors of sexual violence.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 10,10 MB
Release : 2018-11
Category : Adult child abuse victims
ISBN : 1408890429

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Throughout her childhood and adolescence, the anonymous author of The Incest Diary was raped by her father. Beneath a veneer of normal family life, she grew up in and around this all-encompassing secret. Her sexual relationship with her father lasted, off and on, into her twenties. It formed her world, and it formed her deepest fears and desires. Even after she broke away, even as she grew into an independent and adventurous young woman, she continued to seek out new versions of the violence, submission and secrecy she had struggled to leave behind. In this graphic and harrowing memoir, the author revisits her early traumas and their aftermath - not from a clinical distance, but from deep within - to explore the ways in which her father's abuse shaped her, and still does. As a matter of psychic survival, she became both a sexual object and a detached observer, a dutiful daughter and the protector of a dirty secret. And then, years later, she made herself write it down. With lyric concision, in vignettes of almost unbearable intensity, this writer tells a story that is shocking but that will ring true to many other survivors of abuse. It has never been faced so directly on the page.

Author : Sohaila Abdulali
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 39,48 MB
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1620974754

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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018 “Brilliant, necessary reading on the ways we talk—and, more importantly, don’t talk—about rape and rape culture.” —HelloGiggles “What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape is brilliant, frank, empowering, and urgently necessary. Sohaila Abdulali has created a powerful tool for examining rape culture and language on the individual, societal, and global level that everyone can benefit from reading.” —Jill Soloway In the tradition of Rebecca Solnit, a beautifully written, deeply intelligent, searingly honest—and ultimately hopeful—examination of sexual assault and the global discourse on rape told through the perspective of a survivor, writer, counselor, and activist After surviving gang-rape at seventeen in Mumbai, Sohaila Abdulali was indignant about the deafening silence that followed and wrote a fiery piece about the perception of rape—and rape victims—for a women’s magazine. Thirty years later, with no notice, her article reappeared and went viral in the wake of the 2012 fatal gang-rape in New Delhi, prompting her to write a New York Times op-ed about healing from rape that was widely circulated. Now, Abdulali has written What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape—a thoughtful, generous, unflinching look at rape and rape culture. Drawing on her own experience, her work with hundreds of survivors as the head of a rape crisis center in Boston, and three decades of grappling with rape as a feminist intellectual and writer, Abdulali tackles some of our thorniest questions about rape, articulating the confounding way we account for who gets raped and why—and asking how we want to raise the next generation. In interviews with survivors from around the world we hear moving personal accounts of hard-earned strength, humor, and wisdom that collectively tell the larger story of what rape means and how healing can occur. Abdulali also points to the questions we don't talk about: Is rape always a life-definining event? Is one rape worse than another? Is a world without rape possible? What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape is a book for this #MeToo and #TimesUp age that will stay with readers—men and women alike—for a long, long time.

Author : Migael Scherer
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 38,99 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Rape
ISBN :

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This beautifully written account of the author's rape and its aftermath represents a triumph of language over what is often unspeakable anguish. In moving detail, Migael Scherer describes the external facts of her attack - she was grabbed from behind with a knife at her neck one morning in a Seattle laundromat, raped, and strangled - as well as the ordeal of reporting and testifying. Incredibly, the more compelling drama is her internal struggle to recover from these events.

Author : Ashley Warner
Publisher :
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 13,35 MB
Release : 2016-11-10
Category :
ISBN : 9780692790458

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Whether you are a recent sexual assault survivor or looking to deepen your healing after many years, this guide is set up to help you. A stand-alone companion to Ashley Warner's award-winning memoir, The Year After Journal provides information, inspiration, and guidance through a process of trauma recovery to a life of greater freedom, empowerment, and joy. Included are daily writing prompts, plenty of space for journaling, creative arts exercises, and essays that draw from Ashley's personal evolution in the aftermath of rape and professional experience as a psychotherapist. A moving antidote to the sense of isolation so frequently felt by survivors, The Year After Journal is a trusty confidante and engaging agent for hope and change.