Nov 12, 2020 | Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Interview, Nightingale, Uncategorized
When survivors can turn to loved ones with the truth of what they experienced and be met with love and trust, they can then work together to foster accountability and ensure the problem is never repeated. Everyone involved has an opportunity to heal. Love WITH...Oct 29, 2020 | Essay, Letter, Megan Otto, Nightingale, Op Ed, Uncategorized
An editorial with Megan Otto Language, Education, and Trauma: a Bloom Editorial Our understanding of sex and sexuality is muddled when we don’t have the tools that we need to talk about our experiences. In our society, the conversation about sexuality after trauma...Oct 1, 2020 | Memoir, Nightingale, Shelley Wolf Harris
Shelley Wolf Harris shares some of the details of her experience with rape many years ago, while other memories surrounding this event remain missing—yet that does not make her pain any less real. By placing herself in the context of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Harris...Sep 17, 2020 | Jennifer Shneiderman, Memoir, Nightingale, Uncategorized
Our earliest discoveries of violence often hold a unique gravity in our memories. In this burst of awareness, Shneiderman comes face to face with the vast potential of a man’s abuse of power over herself as a young girl. With rich details and characterization of...Sep 3, 2020 | Interview, Megan Otto, Meggie Royer, Nightingale, Uncategorized
As a digital literary magazine with a focus on art by and for survivors of sexual violence, Persephone’s Daughters is like a cousin to Awakened Voices and The Nightingale. Meggie Royer, an author recently published on The Nightingale with her prose piece “Afterwards,...