Mar 18, 2021 | Ania Garcia Llorente, Essay, Nightingale, Uncategorized
What if we imagined what we usually call “healing” as “building” or “rebuilding?” Ania Garcia suggests and analyzes this shift in language by imagining survivors as architects. She highlights important concepts of inside and outside...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...Aug 6, 2020 | Essay, Meggie Royer, Nightingale, Uncategorized
In an ongoing emotional waterfall, Meggie Royer responds to sexual violence with a stream of consciousness. She drops us into the days after surviving intimate partner sexual violence and introduces us to the endless and overwhelming list of small things that need to...Jul 23, 2020 | Callen Harty, Essay, Nightingale, Uncategorized
Harty asks the same question again and again, with a new answer each time. Why I didn’t report? “There are too many reasons.” Through writing that is open, gentle, and direct, Harty examines years of his own silence after experiencing childhood...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...Jul 5, 2019 | Essay, Nightingale, Prose, Silver Damsen, Uncategorized
Sometimes the places where we hope to find the most safety turn out to offer safety and recovery in some areas but not in others. Even organizations that have a reputation for being very helpful and healing can be places where harm occurs. Silver Damsen bravely speaks...