Coming home to our bodies: trauma and justice
This piece is a cross-post, originally published on January 29, 2016, on the Brethren Mennonite Council website. My senior year of high school, I was talking to a school counselor about an experience I...
View ArticleHow storytelling helped me heal | Healing from Sexual Abuse Vlog, Ep. 5
<—– This is a photo of the trees and me being supermodel Awesome. Down below is a video (vlog post) of the trees and me being not supermodel but superhero AWESOME. Seriously. One year ago there was...
View ArticleThe victim narrative on sex-trafficking: An interview with Yvonne Zimmerman...
What is sex trafficking? Is it different from prostitution? Is it slavery? Who is involved in sex trafficking? Why does it exist? What does it mean for survivor communities to talk about sex...
View ArticleProstitution, sex-trafficking, and agency: An interview with Yvonne Zimmerman...
Yesterday we posted part 1 of a 3 part interview series between Stephanie Krehbiel and Yvonne Zimmerman on the narrative of sex-trafficking. Zimmerman is a veteran of the sex trafficking debates. Her...
View ArticleWhy queer youth cannot be “kittens that we rescue”: An interview with Yvonne...
This is the third part to a 3 part interview series between Stephanie Krehbiel and Yvonne Zimmerman on the narrative of sex-trafficking. Zimmerman is a veteran of the sex trafficking debates. Her book,...
View ArticleAn Open Letter from OurStoriesUntold to Eastern Mennonite University
Last week, in an email to faculty, staff and students, Eastern Mennonite University acknowledged and responded to Lauren Shifflitt’s testimony to the stalking and abuse she experienced from former EMU...
View ArticleFallen to Freedom
In 2006, I approached my Pastor and shared with him that I felt that there was something missing between God and I and I wasn’t sure what it was. I asked if we could meet. He answered, “Sure, no...
View ArticleMennonite Bodies, Sexual Ethics: Women Challenge John Howard Yoder
Many readers of Our Stories Untold are likely familiar with aspects of the long, troubling history — dating to the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s — of theologian John Howard Yoder’s sexual abuse of women, and...
View ArticleTitle IX, Due Process, Standards of Proof, and… What was the question again?...
Education is power. Here’s part two of Into Account’s blog series that interprets the Title IX confusion brewing across the country and offers information that helps us know how to support each other...
View ArticleWhen the Church Walks Away: Part One
This is part one in what will be a series of posts published over the next few weeks by Kathy Wiens, a sexual violence survivor, and her husband, Tim, who has been her strong ally. Kathy has...
View ArticleWhen the Church Walks Away: Part Three
This is part three in a series of posts by Kathy Wiens, a sexual violence survivor, and her husband, Tim, who has been her strong ally. The series focuses on her experience of advocating for people...
View ArticleWhen the Church Walks Away: Learning to Stand With the Survivors We Love
Often, survivors of sexualized violence experience isolation even in their own families. It is far too infrequent that partners and parents and siblings find their way toward solidarity with loved ones...
View ArticleMan, Christian, Survivor of Abuse: My Message to the Church
Charlie is a Methodist getting ready to graduate from an Anabaptist seminary. In addition to being a child abuse survivor himself, he is an activist for child abuse survivors, and we are thoroughly...
View ArticleHope, and the work that gets us there: Insights for communities engaging...
Nine days ago, I stood in Elkhart, Indiana, on the campus of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS). The campus apartment building where I was sexually assaulted is gone now. When I learned that...
View ArticleI am not ruined: Surviving abuse in the Church of Christ
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