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Prompting

It’s normal to feel isolated right now, or scared, or worried, or unsure of what’s going to happen next, or whatever it is that you’re

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Interview with Bobbie Groth

Interview with Bobbie Groth by Nightingale Editor Megan Otto Bobbie Groth is an author, historian, and survivor of sexual violence. She is an accomplished interdisciplinary

  • Interview, Other
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Aladdin

Ami J. Sanghvi knows how deep and true the love of our animals can be, and how it helps us understand our own inherent worthiness

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Rewrite

In response to our October prompt, Katherine Page returns to a piece of writing that is distinctly connected to her past experience with sexual violence-a

  • Journal Entry, Memoir, Other, Prose
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Beastman

With a compelling voice in a powerful story of experience with pedophilia, Jackie Bluu surges forward with a righteous desire for her trauma to be

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Sexual Predation Recovery

A follow-up to The Nightingale post two weeks ago, Silver Damsen shares her research and resources on where else this frequently silenced or dismissed idea

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Trust by T.m. Lawson

T.m. Lawson is a poet and a writer living in California. They are currently attending UCSD, working on their Creative Writing M.F.A. They’ve been published

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Sex in Utopia by Alicen Grey

1. The face of the desk lamp shined fierce light across my fingers as I typed the finishing touches on an assignment. It was a

  • Essay, Image, Other, Prose