Dear Sister
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Dear Sister

Letters From Survivors of Sexual Violence

  1. 178 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Dear Sister

Letters From Survivors of Sexual Violence

About this book

Dear Sister,

It wasn't your fault; it was never your fault. You did nothing wrong. Hold this tight to your heart: it wasn't your fault.

At night when you lay there and your mind fills with images and you wonder if only, if you had... if you hadn't.... Remember: it wasn't your fault.

Dear Sister highlights the lessons, memories, and vision of over forty artists, activists, mothers, writers, and students who share a common bond: they are survivors of sexual violence. Written in an epistolary format, this multi-generational, multi-ethnic collection of letters and essays is a moving journey into the hearts and minds of the survivors of rape, incest, and other forms of sexual violence, written directly to and for other survivors.

Dear Sister goes far beyond traditional books about healing, which often use "experts" to explain the experience of survivors for the rest of the world. Where other books about rape weave the voices of feminists and activists together and imagine what a world without violence might look like, Dear Sister describes the reality of what the world looks like through the eyes of a survivor. From a professor in the Midwest to a poet in Belgium, an escapee from a child prostitution ring, a survivor advocate in the Congo, and a sex worker in San Francisco, Dear Sister touches on issues of feminism, love, disability, gender, justice, identity, and spirituality.

Lisa Factora-Borchers is a Filipina writer and editor whose work has been published in make/shift, Bitch, Left Turn, and Critical Moment.


Contributors: Aaminah Shakur, Adrienne Maree Brown, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Allison McCarthy, Amita Y. Swadhin, Amy Ernst, Ana Heaton, Andrea Harris, Angel Propps, anna Saini, Anne Averyt, annu Saini, Ashley Burczak, brownfemipower, Brooke Benoit, Denise Santomauro, Desire Vincent, Dorla Harris, "Harriet J.", Indira Allegra, Isabella Gitana-Woolf, Joan Chen, Judith Stevenson, Juliet November, Kathleen Ahern, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Marianne Kirby, Maroula Blades, Mary Zelinka, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Melissa Dey Hasbrook, Melissa G., Mia Mingus, Michelle Ovalle, Premala Matthen, Rebecca Echeverria, Renee Martin, River Willow Fagan, Sara Durnan, Sarah M. Cash, Shala Bennett, Shanna Katz, Sofia Rose Smith, Sumayyah Talibah, Sydette Harry, Birdy, Viannah E. Duncan, and Zöe Flowers.

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Information

Publisher
AK Press
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781849351720
eBook ISBN
9781849351737
Edition
0
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Self Improvement
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Praise for Dear Sister
  2. Table Of Contents
  3. Dedication
  4. Foreward: Aishah Shahidah Simmons
  5. Introduction: Lisa Factora-Borchers
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Editor’s Note on “Triggering”
  8. Part 1: What Every Survivor Needs To Know
  9. Ana Heaton: The Secret of Me
  10. An Ally: Letter 1: Keep Breathing
  11. Birdy: Letter 2: What I Should Have Been Told
  12. Aaminah Shakur: Letter 3: It Wasn’t Your Fault
  13. Shanna Katz: Letter 4: Your Light
  14. Viannah E. Duncan: Letter 5: I Believe You
  15. Renée Martin: Letter 6: Putting It Beside You
  16. Zöe Flowers: Choosing Liberation After Physical and Sexual Abuse: An Interview
  17. Marianne Kirby: You Don’t Owe It to Anyone Else to Report
  18. Part 2: A Child Re-members
  19. Judith Stevenson: Memory 1999
  20. Joan Chen: Untitled, Sketch
  21. Sarah Cash: I’m There Again
  22. Mary Zelinka: Letter 7: The Spiral
  23. Angel Propps: Letter 8: I Am
  24. Kathleen Ahern: Letter 9: Against All Odds
  25. Melissa Dey Hasbrook: Attic
  26. Juliet November: Feminine Wiles
  27. Part 3: Family Ties
  28. Anonymous: Letter 10: Fifty-Eight Years
  29. Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: Letter 11: I Can’t Leave the Brothers Out
  30. brownfemipower: Letter 12: Oh, Evil Day!
  31. Dorla Harris: Letter 13: The Aftershock
  32. Amita Y. Swadhin: Letter 14: Amita’s Fine
  33. Part 4: From Trauma to Strength
  34. Brooke Benoit: Surviving Birth
  35. Michelle Ovalle: Smooth as Scales
  36. Andrea Harris: From One Survivor to Another
  37. annu saini: Letter to My Rapist
  38. Sara Durnan: Para todo lo que se marcho
  39. Harriet Jay: Another Post About Rape
  40. Mia Mingus: Transformative and Disability Justice
  41. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha & kyisha williams: Badass Resilience Black and Brown Femme Survivor Affirmations
  42. Sydette Harry: Letter 15: Special
  43. Part 5: Radical Companionship
  44. Alexis Pauline Gumbs: &
  45. Shala Bennett: Letter 16: Light
  46. Desire Vincent: Letter 17: A Sad Song No More
  47. Allison McCarthy: The Pearl
  48. Rebecca Wyllie de Echeverria: Letter 18: An Hourly Reckoning
  49. anna saini: An Unlikable Survivor
  50. Sumayyah Talibah: Sister to Sister
  51. Premala Matthen: Letter 19: I See You
  52. Amy Ernst: In North Kivu
  53. Indira Allegra: Survival Season
  54. Part 6: Choose Your Own Adventure
  55. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: Surviving Abuse as A Choose Your Own Adventure Novel
  56. Denise Santomauro: Letter 20: A Jeans-Wearing Dreamer
  57. Maroula Blades: I Ache
  58. Melissa Gordon: Letter 21: Survictim
  59. adrienne maree brown: awakening
  60. Isabella Gitana-Woolf: Our Ancestors Were Watching
  61. Sofia Rose Smith & Lisa Factora-Borchers: The Place of Forgiveness: A Conversation
  62. River Willow Fagan: What If?
  63. Anne Averyt: The Hike to Again
  64. List of Contributors and Biographies
  65. About AK Press
  66. Copyright