The following essay was written by my good friend Desiree Cooper. Desiree, a badass women’s right activist, was a 2015 Kresge Artist Fellow and Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist, and is the author of the critically-acclaimed and award-winning flash fiction collection Know the Mother. Learn more about Desiree and her amazing work, activism, and advocacy at DesCooper.com. Please share widely. Now that […]

Three years ago, I I wrote about being sexually assaulted by a doctor when I was ten years old. It was a story that I had kept to myself for decades and the decision to share it came after I came to the realization that our national conversation about rape and sexual assault was a complete train wreck. Two years […]

My friend Extreme Liberal posted a piece at Angry Black Lady Chronicles a while back titled “I was sexually assaulted as a child”. With Glenn Greenwald’s obscene comments about my good friend Imani Gandy, the Angry Black Lady, I thought now might be a good time to tell my own story of being sexually molested as a young boy. Unlike […]