Dear sister Letters from survivors of sexual violence
Book - 2014
"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."--P. [4] of cover.
- Subjects
- Published
-
Edinburgh :
AK Press
[2014]
©2014 - Language
- English
Spanish - Other Authors
- Physical Description
- 246 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- ISBN
- 9781849351720
- Foreword
- Introduction & Editor's Note
- What Every Survivor Needs to Know
- The Secret of Me
- Letter 1. Keep Breathing
- Letter 2. What I Should Have Been Told
- Letter 3. It Wasn't Your Fault
- Letter 4. Your Light
- Letter 5. I Believe You
- Letter 6. Putting It Beside You
- Dirty Laundry: An Interview with Zöe Flowers
- You Don't Owe It to Anyone Else to Report
- A Child Re-members
- Memory 1999
- Untitled, Sketch
- I'm There Again
- Letter 7. The Spiral
- Letter 8. I Am
- Letter 9. Against All Odds
- Attic
- Feminine Wiles
- Family Ties
- Letter 10. Fifty-Eight Years, Anonymous
- Letter 11. I Can't Leave the Brothers Out
- Letter 12. Oh, Evil Day!, brownfemipower
- Letter 13. The Aftershock
- Letter 14. Amita's Fine
- From Trauma to Strength
- Surviving Birth
- Smooth as Scales
- From One Survivor to Another
- A Letter to My Rapist
- Para todo lo que se marcho / For All That Left Her
- Another Post About Rape
- Transformative & Disability Justice
- Badass Resilience Black and Brown Femme Survivor Affirmations
- Radical Companionship
- Letter 15. Special
- Letter 16. Light, Shala Bennett
- Letter 17. A Sad Song No More
- The Pearl
- Letter 18. An Hourly Reckoning Rebecca Wyllie de
- Echeverria An Unlikeable Survivor
- Sister to Sister
- Letter 19. I See You
- In North Kivu
- Survival Season
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- Surviving Abuse as a Choose Your Own Adventure Novel
- Letter 20. A Jeans-Wearing Dreamer
- I Ache
- Letter 21. Survictim
- Awakening
- Our Ancestors Were Watching
- The Place of Forgiveness: A Conversation
- What If
- The Hike to Again
- Contributor Bios