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As mentioned in a previous post, in late summer 2017, and all throughout the fall, I began giving presentations to my coworkers, company wide, about The Language of Violence. For years, I dreamed of helping create a guide for our…
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I want to tell you about an experience I had a few weeks back that pretty much ripped my heart out of my chest. An experience that gutted me. A few months ago, one of my closest friends here in…
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Recently, I was asked to speak to the staff of the Atlanta Hawks as part of their Courageous Conversations series started by my friend and mentor, Nzinga Shaw. You might remember Zing from back in March 2017 when I spoke…
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Sharing here three posts about my ‘cool, fun job’ and my volunteer work in the Atlanta community and beyond. That last part being the only reason I agree to do these sorts of things. First and foremost, I want other…
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In 2010, when I decided to publicly disclose my assault in the pages of Marie Claire, and then, USA Today, and here at this site, I did so with the goal of networking with others like me so that we…
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The fact I’ve finally sat down to compose a post on the months of sexual assault and harassment revelations we’ve read about signals the realization that telling myself “I’ll write ‘when things calm down and I have a clearer head’…
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I feel the need to commemorate this day as the one that broke the Harvey Weinstein sexual assault and sexual harassment news wide open. After this New York Times expose on Weinstein’s predatory behavior, today’s New Yorker piece added yet…
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Just giving a shout to Fox 5 Atlanta reporter Jaclyn Schultz for tweeting about a violent sexual predator on the loose in Atlanta. I see sooo many tweets by reporters that say “Woman was assaulted” … using language that makes…
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I’m introducing a new recurring feature where I will post an article I’ve read about interpersonal or sexual violence, and I will assign it a grade for the language it uses to describe the crime, the victim and the person…
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Posting this here for now and promise a follow up soon. I have been working so, so hard to make some long-held dreams come true and I talk about it here with my co-worker Sarah Spain, host of the ESPN…
A Fight Back Woman 
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