
Love WITH Accountability
Digging up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse
- English
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About this book
Despite the current survivor-affirming awareness around sexual violence, child sexual abuse, most notably when it’s a family member or friend, is still a very taboo topic. There are approximately 42 million child sexual abuse survivors in the U.S. and millions of bystanders who look the other way as the abuse occurs and cover for the harm-doers with no accountability. Documentary filmmaker and survivor of child sexual abuse and adult rape, Aishah Shahidah Simmons invites diasporic Black people to join her in transformative storytelling that envisions a world that ends child sexual abuse without relying on the criminal justice system. Love WITH Accountability features compelling writings by child sexual abuse survivors, advocates, and Simmons’s mother, who underscores the detrimental impact of parents/caregivers not believing their children when they disclose their sexual abuse. This collection explores disrupting the inhumane epidemic of child sexual abuse, humanely.
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Table of contents
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Content Notice
- FOREWORD: Love Is a Reckoning
- INTRODUCTION: Dig Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse
- CHAPTER 1: Love WITH Accountability
- CHAPTER 2: Paying It Forward Instead of Looking Backward
- CHAPTER 3: Soul Survivor
- CHAPTER 4: Fast
- CHAPTER 5: On Moving Forward
- CHAPTER 6: Social Silence and Sexual Violence
- CHAPTER 7: Embracing Our Humanity in the Accountability Process
- CHAPTER 8: Peacock Feathers and Love
- CHAPTER 9: āAn Outro to LILACS | Syringa vulgarisā
- CHAPTER 10: Whose Child Is This? She Is Mine
- CHAPTER 11: Becoming Each Otherās Harvest
- CHAPTER 12: PopsānAde
- CHAPTER 13: Love-Centered Accountability
- CHAPTER 14: Self-Love with Accountability
- CHAPTER 15: In My Motherās Name
- CHAPTER 16: The Coiled-Spring First Grader Deep Inside
- CHAPTER 17: Our Silence Will Not Save Us
- CHAPTER 18: Safe Space
- CHAPTER 19: Unfinished
- CHAPTER 20: āThe Least of Theseā
- CHAPTER 21: Who Is Accountable to the Black Latinx Child?
- CHAPTER 22: Reclaiming Our Voice
- CHAPTER 23: Network of Care
- CHAPTER 24: The Fear of Believing Survivors
- CHAPTER 25: Colliding Traumas
- CHAPTER 26: Kissing, Forgiveness, and Accountability
- CHAPTER 27: This Is My Return
- CHAPTER 28: Violation and Making the Road by Walking It
- CHAPTER 29: Silent No More
- CHAPTER 30: The Vanguard of Love, Accountability, the Young Advocates Institute, and You and I
- CHAPTER 31: Sunset
- CHAPTER 32: #OnTurning50
- CHAPTER 33: Poetic Justice
- CHAPTER 34: The Truth as I Know It
- CHAPTER 35: Sometimes, the Wolves Wear Lipstick and We Call Them Auntie
- CHAPTER 36: The Compassion Imperative
- CHAPTER 37: Thoughts on Discipline, Justice, Love, and Accountability
- CHAPTER 38: Casting Aspersions
- CHAPTER 39: Accountability to Ourselves and Our Children
- CHAPTER 40: Confronting Harm Past and Present for Tomorrow
- It Takes a Village: Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Praise for Love WITH Accountability
- Copyright
- Friends of AK