i started this blog after a brainstorming session on how to more effectively create viable survivor support networks. i felt like a blog format could potentially offer a comfortable forum for survivors to share their experiences and to connect with other survivors, even across great physical or emotional distance. i think it is really crucial that survivors are able to build networks with each other, especially since there is still so much silence surrounding the issue of sexual violence, and the overarching dominant culture normalizes, condones, and eroticizes sexual violence. it is all too common that survivors feel alone, invalidated, and unsupported. i hope that this blog will be able to begin to bridge the distance between us, and that we will be able to create our own support systems independent of a culture that attempts to silence, deny, and blame us for the violence we experience.
as an aside, i've never maintained a blog before. i am still trying to figure out how to make this space open to every survivor who wants to participate (i.e. how to make it an open publishing blog that still maintains a safe space). at this point, 100 people can sign up to be authors, so we have some time to figure it out if it becomes an issue in the future.
please contact me if you would like to be an author!
2 comments:
hey this is awesome definitely count me in. maybe creating a safer space would include things like not using real names on public posts. and making clear not to be offensive about certain things like race, religion, sexual orientation etc. etc.
yeah, i totally agree that people should use the names they are most comfortable with presenting.
and oppressive language will not fly.
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