Research & Literature

The ‘me too.’ Movement presents this collection of resources as one of the many places you can start your healing journey. Whether you find a memoir that lets you go inside the mind of an actual survivor through their first-person account of harm and healing, or you want to read up on statistics and research that can propel your own healing or activism, this ever-expanding library is for you.

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The Sexual Abuse to Prison Pipeline: The Girls’ Story

Malika Saada Saar, Rebecca Epstein, Lindsay Rosenthal, Yasmin Vafa | 2019

This report exposes the ways in which we criminalize girls — especially girls of color — who have been sexually and physically abused, and it offers policy recommendations to dismantle the abuse to prison pipeline. It illustrates the pipeline with examples, including the detention of girls who are victims of sex trafficking, girls who run away or become truant because of abuse they experience, and girls who cross into the juvenile justice system from the child welfare system. By illuminating both the problem and potential solutions, we hope to make the first step toward ending the cycle of victimization-to-imprisonment for marginalized girls.

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Thriver’s Quest: Healing life’s traumas to bring out your best

M.E. Hart, Liberty Partners Press, Self-help

Within each chapter are poems reflecting the aforementioned topics. These poems act as a guide for the reader and hopefully will prompt the reader to write their own poem surrounding the topic provided. Mr. Hart’s poetry is honest, heartfelt and compelling, thus opening the reader up for the second part of the healing process, which is presented in workbook form. According to Mr. Hart, “Thoughts and feelings can seem chaotic when we are at the beginning of a healing journey; so I developed a simple system for writing poems called: The MiniQuest Writing Process. The three MiniQuest steps are: The Call, The Quest and The Return.”

The Call is simply a thought or question that sparks one to try to understand. The Quest is writing down your response and the Return is going back to the poem and trying to gain a deeper understanding.

What makes this book so outstanding is it doubles as a workbook/journal to get the reader thinking about his or her personal abuses and ways to write about them, by answering the Call, Quest and Return responses that apply to the reader’s own story/poetry.

The audience for this book is men. Its content makes it a unique offering and worthy of recommendation. Sexual assaults on males are and have always been prevalent. However, too many men have allowed fear and shame to prevent them from revealing their truth, especially Black men. This book will equip any person, particularly men, with innovative and effective ways to face their truth and thrive.

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Unlocking Opportunity for African American Girls: A Call to Action for Educational Equity

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc | 2014

This report seeks to expand conversations around educational opportunity by taking a comprehensive look at the barriers African American girls face and the educational and economic outcomes that result. One important barrier is the prevalence of stereotypes that adversely impact the educational experiences of African American girls. Structural and institutional barriers examined in this report — such as under-resourced schools, disparate discipline practices, gender-based violence and harassment, and lack of support for pregnant and parenting students — further compromise educational outcomes for African American girls.

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