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A guide that empowers and equips us with the right knowledge and concrete strategies to curb sexual violence on our children. Sexual violence against our children is a real and everyday danger. Protecting them from the threat of sex predators is one of our top concerns and fears-for both parents and educators-as we send our sons and daughters off to school and play. Unfortunately, not many of us know the right way-or even how-to think about and address...
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One ordinary spring morning in Reykjavik, Iceland, Thordis Elva kisses her son and partner goodbye before boarding a plane to do a remarkable thing: fly seven thousand miles to South Africa to confront the man who raped her when she was just sixteen. Meanwhile, in Sydney, Australia, Tom Stranger nervously embarks on an equally life-changing journey to meet Thordis, wondering whether he is worthy of this milestone. After exchanging hundreds of searingly...
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Los textos que componen esta publicación fueron presentados por sus autores al I Concurso de relatos cortos sobre violencia de género organizado por la Fundación Luz Casanova. Recogen el infierno que viven muchas mujeres, los usos y costumbres que perpetúan la discriminación por cuestión de género, el silencio cómplice del entorno o cómo los hijos se convierten también en «víctimas colaterales». Pero las lágrimas derramadas por estas...
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Self Defense: Why even bother covers exactly what the title entails. It's everything you need to know about how you should train to protect yourself. Where you go to get the training and why should you even bother. Instead of pulling out a bunch of stats and data DJ gives information based on his own real life experiences as both a young man in the city and a martial arts/self-defense instructor.
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On July 6, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein became a household name as an international sex trafficker of underage girls, serial sex abuser, and confidant of the most famous, rich, and powerful men in the world. Barely a month after his arrest, he was reportedly found dead in his prison cell, supposedly by suicide. Numerous investigations are ongoing, to find out how he really died-but the public has been kept in the dark.
In this first of a series of books...
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Garçon ou fille ? Dès la naissance, chaque individu est classé dans un réseau complexe de stéréotypes, de comportements et de discours attendus par le système de genre. Mais certains choisissent d'en sortir. D'Elliot Page à Caitlyn Jenner ou la politicienne Sarah McBride (première femme trans* élue au Sénat américain), les coming-out trans* ou non binaires sont de plus en plus médiatisés. Plusieurs pays ont aussi introduit une nouvelle...
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This is the true story of the world of human trafficking in Canada. For years many people refused to believe that human trafficking was happening here in innocent, safe Canada to our very own Canadian girls. But they were wrong! It is estimated that between 12 and 27 million people are currently caught in human trafficking globally, and Canadian stats show that thousands are exploited for their labour or sexual services right across our own country....
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Prioritizes survivors of abuse by reexamining Christian ideals about suffering and salvation
More than half of women and almost one in three of men in the United States have experienced sexual violence at some time in their lives. Yet our Christian tradition has failed survivors of sexual violence, who have been taught to believe that traumatic suffering brings us closer to God. Incarnating Grace attempts to save our broken ways of talking about...
149) Game Changer
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Game Changer allows anyone to overcome the erroneous credit reporting mistakes of the past and correct them. Bad credit? No credit? Game Changer is loaded with knowledgeable, easy-to-follow advice no matter where someone is in their financial journey. It's time to stop being the victim of a low credit score, Ebony Washington exposes the naked truth of credit repair secrets.
By using the methods modeled from certified credit repair specialists and...
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Personal stories of surviving after the trauma of sexual assault.
In the era of #MeToo, we've become better at talking about sexual assault. But sexual assault isn't limited to a single, terrible moment of violence: it stays with survivors, following them wherever they go.
Through the voices of twelve diverse writers, Whatever Gets You Through offers a powerful look at the narrative of sexual assault not covered by the headlines-the weeks, months,...
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Montaha Hidefi's Groping for Truth — My Uphill Struggle for Respect, is a gripping #MeToo movement-inspired memoir that recaps the staggering story of sexual harassment and violence she endured throughout her life. The abuse began at the hands of her own mother and people from her community and then followed her around the globe. The author's pain is palpable as she recollects the rollercoaster of emotions of a childhood shattered by physical abuse...
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The gender war is over - and if it isn't, it should be.
Most people are willing to work for gender equality that leads to positive and productive relationships with the opposite sex. Applying the current social and interpersonal tools available often leaves them feeling frustrated and exhausted. These "best practices" are built on a flawed adversarial system of "us vs. them" which perpetuates the gender gap — a divide between men and women. Mike...
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"Violence is nurturance turned backwards," writes Nora Samaran. In Turn This World Inside Out, she presents Nurturance Culture as the opposite of rape culture and suggests how alternative models of care and accountability-different from "call-outs," which are often rooted in the politics of shame and guilt-can move toward inverting cultures of dominance and systems of oppression. When communities are able to recognize and speak up about systemic violence,...
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This is the story of a very courageous young women who suffered many years of abuse. Who sought to end the cycle within her family. This book speaks on a issue that happens daily but is shunned by society, sexual abuse is a global issue. While pedophiles get jail sentences the children get life sentences. Have you ever wondered where the next generation of Sex Traffickers, Rapist, Gang bangers, Sexual Offenders and people prone to Domestic Violence...
155) Scales of Eden
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Courage and the loss of innocence in the dawn of a new age
For Wayne Campbell, growing up in the 1950s, Deep River is an earthly paradise. The Town Beside the Ottawa is an instant community, built in less than a year to house the scientists, engineers and others who work at Canada's first nuclear research facility at nearby Chalk River.
Wayne and his friends from the far reaches of Canada and the world discover an exciting life that combines disciplined...
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An exclusive look inside the power and politics of college fraternities in America as they struggle to survive despite growing waves of criticism and outrage.
College fraternity culture has never been more embattled. Once a mainstay of campus life, fraternities are now subject to withering criticism for reinforcing white male privilege and undermining the lasting social and economic value of a college education.
No fraternity embodies this problem...
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First published in 1988, the groundbreaking The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse has been completely revised, updated, and expanded for its 20th Anniversary edition. Considered "a classic" and "the bible of healing from child sexual abuse," this inspiring, comprehensive and compassionate guide provides a map of support of the healing journey and a lifeline for millions. Weaving together personal experience with professional...
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A new sexual revolution is sweeping the country, and college students are on the front lines. Few places in America have felt the influence of #MeToo more intensely. Indeed, college campuses were in many ways the harbingers of #MeToo. Grigoriadis captures the nature of this cultural reckoning without shying away from its complexity. College women use fresh, smart methods to fight entrenched sexism and sexual assault even as they celebrate their own...
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How a Parkland Dad and 9/11 Brother Faced Tragedy
Life changed forever on Valentine's Day 2018 for Fred Guttenberg and his family. What should have been a day of love turned into a nightmare. Seventeen people died at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Fourteen-year-old Jaime Guttenberg was the second to last victim.
"Fred Guttenberg is a hero." —Lawrence O'Donnell. That Jaime and so many of her fellow students were struck down in cold...
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In late 2017 the #MeToo movement went viral, opening up an explosive conversation about rape culture around the globe. In the US, someone is sexually assaulted every 98 seconds. More than 320,000 Americans over the age of twelve are sexually assaulted each year. One in thirty-three American men will be sexually assaulted or raped in his lifetime. Yet only 3 percent of rapists ever serve time in jail. Keyser explores the patriarchal constructs that...
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