Finding our Voice... Discovering our Power!
"As she climbed down from the stage I thought: This is what courage is. It's not just living through the nightmare, it's doing something with it afterward. It's being brave enough to talk about it to other people. It's trying to organize to change things. And suddenly I felt so sick to death of my own silence that I needed to speak too. It wasn't that there was something in particular I was burning to say. I didn't even know what it would be. I just needed to open my throat for once and hear my own voice. And I was afraid if I let this moment pass, I might never be brave enough to try again." ~Leslie Feinberg from Stone Butch Blues
About Survivors Speak, Volume One (2007)
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Survivors Speak, Volume One (2007) is a book of child abuse survivorship and healing writing... for everyone who will dare to read it... because silence only protects the abusers! After a lifetime of living in the shroud of silence that was imposed upon us, child abuse survivors everywhere are finding our voices… and we demand to be heard!
=> Purchase Survivors Speak, Volume One (2007)
About Survivors Speak, Volume Two (2008)
At Breaking the Silence we recognize that there are ways beyond mere words by which child abuse survivors can and do break their silence. Therefore, for Survivors Speak, Volume Two (2008), we concluded that it only makes sense to publish child abuse survivorship and healing writing (any format), computer-created art, and scans or photos of other art. We are currently accepting submissions (maximum five per person) of child abuse survivorship and healing writing (any format), computer-created art, and scans or photos of other art for this publication.
Submit Your Writing/Artwork (Deadline 03/21/08)
