Aishah Shahidah Simmons

Just an incredible and incredibly important read. So many narratives about how to support survivors of child sexual abuse from Black people, mostly cis women but also trans women and a few men. Theres's a wide variety here regarding solutions and dreaming of what is possible--some carceral, but also transformative and reparative justice arise as possible solutions. Important to see the ways in which many of the solutions overlap around upfront sexual education as well as material ways in which believing children and building trust that children WILL be believed can take shape.

So grateful to have this collection out in the world, and definitely recommend folks pick it up to hear from survivors what they need and want, and how they're imagining a better world.… (meer)