Apr 16, 2020 | Dominic Bucca, Memoir, Nightingale, Uncategorized
In a piece for the current moment, Dominic Bucca reflects on his self-isolation experience and extends his thoughts and attention to those who may be experiencing COVID-19 while quarantined with an abuser. With great gentleness and consideration for his audience,...Apr 2, 2020 | Dreen Lucky, Memoir, Nightingale, Uncategorized
What does it mean to feel broken, and how is it possible to rebuild? After sexual violence made her family feel broken, Dreen Lucky examines that brokenness with gentleness and an element of forgiveness towards herself. By incorporating kintsugi, the Japanese art of...Apr 2, 2020 | Memoir, Nightingale, Susanna Penfield, Uncategorized
There is a difference between breaking and brokenness, between a splinter of pain and falling to pieces. Susanna Penfield explores the nuances of hurt in her life after sexual violence, acknowledging her splinters but still resolute in her sense of self. While we can...Mar 18, 2020 | Laura Kinter, Nightingale, Op Ed
We wanted to give our community a different kind of update. Not another announcement of closure and cancellation. Not another “stay healthy!” If you’re like me, my inbox, phone, and mind have been flooded with the bleak reality that this time of illness and isolation...Mar 5, 2020 | Barbara Edema, Essay, Memoir, Nightingale, Uncategorized
Reverend Dr. Barbara Edemea returns to The Nightingale with a series of positive intentions celebrating belief in one another, oneself, and our community of survivors. These intentions are at once universal and specific–with a “he” and a...Mar 5, 2020 | Fiction, Graham Marema, Nightingale, Uncategorized
In a response to our February prompt, a family breakfast tradition explores the tension within silence and an untold truth. Marema explores the contrast between the precise, familiar ease of making eggs for breakfast with the complicated unknowable experience of...