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,...Aug 20, 2020 | Illianna Martinez, Memoir, Nightingale, Nonfiction, Uncategorized
The strength and earnestness with which Martinez describes her incomplete memories serve to prove that strong feelings are just as powerful as concrete details. Feelings are true, they leave lasting effects on one’s life, and this alone makes them important. Yet...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...Aug 6, 2020 | Fiction, Nightingale, Rebecca Nestor
Rebecca Nestor pulls us gently through dreams and reality, childhood and adulthood. As she comes to terms with a momentous move away from where she grew up and where she suffered abuse as a child, childhood sexual violence evolves into adult healing and strength. With...