when e.e. cummings said “i’ll live my life if it kills me”; when andrea gibson said “i suppose i love this life, in spite of my clenched fist.” & when ellen bass said “to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it”.
Weekly reminder.
The 'silence' around child sex abuse is ALWAYS the perpetrators.
Keep talking;
There are people, therapists and support groups around for you to speak with, and I am never faraway if you need a friendly ear to listen.
#survivors#csa#empathy
Puerto Rican women are celebrating activist Lolita Lebrón today. Named TIME's person of the year in 2010, Lebrón was the leader of a Puerto Rican nationalist group that stormed the U.S. Capitol with pistols in 1954, screaming "Viva Puerto Rico libre!"