May 11, 2019 | Letter, Megan Otto, Nightingale, Prose, Uncategorized
The Nightingale Editor and Awakened Voices Associate Editor Megan Otto shares reflections on April. Reflections on April: Awareness and poetry by Megan Otto April is commonly known as Sexual Assault Awareness Month, but it also happens to be National Poetry Month....Apr 25, 2019 | Barbara Edema, Essay, Memoir, my voice, Nightingale, Prose, Uncategorized
Dr. Reverend Barbara Edema has been a frequent contributor to Awakenings publications, and we’re pleased to share more of her encouraging, affirming message. In this piece, Barbara speaks to the ways in which survivors can often find it difficult to share their...Apr 11, 2019 | Memory Piece, Nightingale, Prose, Uncategorized
Jorie Rao delves skillfully into the aftermath of an assault. The piece explores the tiny sensory details that form whole memories and how those memories can grow into large parts of ourselves. Here, the smell of soap in a bathroom takes Rao’s readers through a...Feb 14, 2019 | All Authors, Erica Avey, Memory Piece, Nightingale, Uncategorized
How do we participate in society and listen to testimonies when that might bring our own past comes to the surface? Avey guides us through this type of experience in this stream of conscious narrative about watching the testimonies on Sepember 28, 2018, and how...Jan 31, 2019 | All Authors, All Formats, Essay, Nightingale, Rachel Litchman, Uncategorized
In her essay, Rachel Litchman highlights groups of survivors who don’t often get the spotlight. She focuses on institutionalized children, both from a personal perspective and from an objective standpoint, and she reveals the prevalence of sexual violence for...Jan 31, 2019 | All Authors, Essay, Nightingale, Nilsa Rivera, Uncategorized
In this examination of the the word “rape,” Nilsa Rivera encourages her readers to think deeply about how the intricacies of language can affect us. By analyzing each sound and letter to break down her associations with the word, Rivera helps readers...