

Angela - victim advocate and survivor
I’m forty and a mother of three children: twins that are seven and a little boy who is ten. I am a professional photographer with my own...


Frankie - mother and child abuse survivor
I’m 42, and I have four kids. The oldest is twelve, and then I have nine-year-old twins, they’ll be ten in a week. My youngest is seven;...


Paulissa - artist and all-around survivor
I’m a forty-eight-year-old survivor of child abuse, domestic violence and rape. I’m a certified peer support specialist and advocate. I’m...


Angela - agent of change and assault survivor
I was kidnapped from a parking lot in broad daylight the summer after I graduated from high school. I was walking towards my car,...


Emily - journalist and abuse survivor
I graduated from UNO last spring, and I’m thinking about going to graduate school. I like writing, taking pictures, and reading. This...


Sarah - mother and rape survivor
I’m a single mom of two boys, 12 and 7, and I’m a fund-raiser for Ride Rank for a Cure. It’s a non-profit organization that deals with...


John - yogi and rape survivor
I grew up in New York: Bronx boy, Manhattan boy, Harlem boy. I was about nine or ten years old, and I was with my brother. We were...


Alyssa - poet and rape survivor
When I was a child, I was molested for three years by a neighbor. He was my brother’s friend from church. He would come over every...


Victoria - revolutionary and rape survivor
These days I’m living my own little American dream -- no home, no school, no job. I’m traveling. I’ve been partaking in a lot of...


Kate - activist and rape survivor
It was at a New Year’s Eve party that we had at our apartment. It was a friend of my roommate’s, and he had been to a few of our parties...