Love with accountability : digging up the roots of child sexual abuse / edited by Aishah Shahidah Simmons; foreword by Darnell L.Moore.

Date:
[2019]
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'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 forty-two million child sexual abuse survivors in the U.S. and millions of bystanders who look the other way as the abuse occurred and cover up 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 Simmon's mother, who underscores the detrimental impact of parents/ caregives not believing their children when they disclose their sexual abuse. This collection explores disrupting the inhumane epidemic of child sexual abuse, humanely' --Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Edinburgh : AK Press, [2019]

Physical description

17 unnumbered pages, 309 pages ; 21 cm

Contents

Content notice--Foreword: Love is a reckoning--Dig up the roots of child sexual abuse--Chapter 1 Love WITH accountability: A Mother's Lament--Chapter 2 Paying if forward instead of looking backward--Chapter 3 Soul survivour: reimaging legacy--Chapter 4 Fast--Chapter 5 On moving forward--Chapter 6 Social silence and sexual violence--Chapter 7 Embracing our humanity--Chapter 8 Peacock feathers and love--Chapter 9 'An outro to LILACS/ Syringa vulgaris'--Chapter 10 Whose child is this? She is mine--Chapter 11 Becoming each other's harvest--Chapter 12 Pops'nAde: a courageous daughter and her non-abusive father on loving lessons, living legacies (l)earned after sexual abuse--Chapter 13 Love centered accountability--Chapter 14 Self-love with accountabilty--Chapter 15 In my mother's name: restorative justice for suvivors of incest--Chapter 16 The coiled-spring first grader deep inside: sexual violence and restorative justice--Chapter 17 Our silence will not save us: considering surviors and abusers--Chapter 18 Safe space: the language and love--Chapter 19 Unfinished--Chapter 20 'The least of these': black children, sexual abuse and theological malpractice--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 trauma--Chapter 26 Kissing, forgiveness, and accountability--Chapter 27 This is my return: 'the soul is covered in a thousand veils'--Chapter 28 Violation and making the road by walking it--Chapter 29 Silent no more: the unheard echoes of childhood sexual abuse in the African American community--Chapter 30 The vanguard of love, accountability, the Young Advocates Institute, and you and I--Chapter 31 Sunset: seeking true accountability after all of these years--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: from hurt to healing: a new north--Chapter 37 Thoughts on discipline, justice, love and accountability: redefining words to reimagine our realities--Chapter 38 Casting aspersions-- Chapter 39 Accountabilty to ourselves and our children--Chapter 40 Confronting harm past and present for tomorrow--It takes a village: Acknowledgements--Contributors.

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    History of Medicine
    UVH.6.AH
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  • 9781849353526
  • 1849353522