Wagatwe Wanjuki    Ovjeren akaunt

@wagatwe

Writer, speaker, thinker on Title IX, trauma, sexual assault, abuse. Anti-rape activist. Podcaster @ Wondery. Words in DAME, Teen Vogue, NYT, ESSENCE. She/hers

Los Angeles, CA
Vrijeme pridruživanja: travanj 2008.

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    I always look to to bring the perspective I sorely need. Follow!

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  3. At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
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  4. She's probably best known for her work with the Little Rock Nine, working to integrate an all-white high school for the first time. But I think it's important to highlight the anti-rape work Black women have done and show how it's inextricably linked to racial justice.

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  6. When she was just seven years old, her mother was raped and murdered by three white men. She transformed her anger into becoming a freedom fighter and highlighting how sexual violence is an inextricable part of racial oppression.

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  7. Daisy Bates (1914-1999) was a civil rights advocate, newspaper publisher, and NAACP leader. She used the power of the pen to highlight Black rape survivors and demand justice for them. Her work helped get trials and some convictions of white assailants in 1940s-50s Arkansas.

    Daisy Lee Bates, Arkansas NAACP president, 1957
via University of Arkansas Libraries (MC 582, Daisy Bates Papers, Box 9, Picture 6)
    Daisy Bates marching

screenshot via PBS
    Daisy Bates outside the Arkansas Conference NAACP Office
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  8. A large part of the past decade has been learning just how normal my trauma responses are. And my struggles are societal and community failures. If people supported victims and offered proper resources, post-rape stories would be a lot different.

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  9. I don't think it'd always intentional, but people often fall into "if you're raped you're forever broken" territory when trying to be supportive. I appreciate people emphasizing how serial sexual abuse is, but maybe don't do it in a way that can alienate victims

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  10. Survivors are forever changed, but recovery and healing is always possible.

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  11. "In Mali, the jihadists threaten to destroy musical instruments, cut the tongues out of singers, and to silence Mali's great musical heritage. And yet, ironically, it is the USA Customs that have in their own way managed to do this."

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    The historical marker for the slave auction block was taken. Unlike the Confederate monuments in our parks, which lie to us, this plaque marked an actual historical fact about the majority of our local population.

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  13. But those moments are also opportunities for incredible growth & healing. It's up to us, as people, to work together to have those moments move us forward instead of compounding on trauma.

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  14. Survivors are the original storytellers. We force our communities to remember and mourn and consider the complexities of the human experience. Not just the highs, but the lowest of lows that cause incredible pain.

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  16. So true. Assailants will do anything to avoid remembering if they don't want accountability. Helping them is a form of enabling. Look at the GOP's approach to Dr. Ford during the hearings...

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    Remember when you stayed up till 3AM talking to someone? Where are they now? You should have just slept.

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    Our body and brain are constantly communicating about whether we're safe or not. When our brain gets the message we aren’t safe, a brain immune inflammatory response — led by microglia — can lead to depression, anxiety, and brain fog.

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  19. and that's one of many reasons why we're so hated and constantly silenced. we force uncomfortable conversations and destroy neat narratives.

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  20. The celebrity death discourses remind me how survivors play an integral role in how we remember the past. We can't write accurate history without survivors.

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  21. Just from the details shared about Natalie Wood, it seems like he had a routine. Thinking of the others whose names we'll like never know, too.

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