An Open Letter to the Family Members That Failed Me

First and foremost, I want to say that I forgive you. I forgive you for the years of silent judgement. I forgive you for choosing to keep a family secret over my physical and mental health.

This is my story of survival. This is something that has taken me quite some time to open up about, but I also feel that it is beyond important for me to no longer be silenced and shamed for it. So here we go

In this country, 1 in 5 women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetimes. The statistic is even higher for Native…

An open letter to the stranger who exposed himself to me

& why we still need feminism right here, right now

It was a pleasant, mild evening in May 2014, and I was running in my quiet rural-suburban neighborhood, flanked on either…