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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Ichabods Speak Out: Poems in the Age of Me, Too

Various, Washburn University, Poetry

Ichabod Speaks Out: Poems in the Age of Me, Too is a collection of poems written by individuals who have experienced some form of violation against their person. Some of the narrators have experienced egregious acts such as molestation, rape, along with physical and emotional abuse. The accounts and recollections were raw and unfiltered. As a survivor, some of the poems were hard to read as they threatened to force me to relive my experience with domestic abuse and rape. In this case, a trigger warning might be necessary. That said, the reader is left with the impression that they are not alone and that there are individuals out there who can relate to their harrowing experience. Some of the poems offer hope to the reader of the possibility of not allowing the violation to be what defines the rest of their life journey.

Sins by Diamond Mclaughlin (p 64), left me dizzy with frustration at the lack of accountability from individuals who never have to answer for their behavior, and yet get to keep on living as though they are guilt-free. The last poem written by Sharon Sullivan contains a line that says, in part, “…And beyond Unspeakable, Unthinkable, Unimaginable, Unbelievable. I believe you. I am not surprised. Only so very sad that happened to you. So very angry that happened to us. So very determined to do better for those who can’t help themselves, yet…I’m going to do the work I was born to do. That does not require your trust. But I hope I can earn it.” (p 84). Sullivan’s gift of compassion, although evolved from a painful experience, is encouraging, and brings a sense of hope that the light of the movement/moment will continue to expose and bring to justice the offender and allow for healing for the offended.

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LOVE T.A.P.S. (Love That Assaults, Pollutes & Scars)

Ce Anderson, M.S. Associate Licensed Counselor, Ce Publishing, LLC, Self-Help

This book should be required reading in health and sociology classes for high school and college students. Love T.A.P.S equips the reader with clinical, as well as practical, insight needed to understand and spot the mindset and actions of an abuser. Anderson repeatedly explains that abuse is not solely physical, but also sexual, financial, emotional, psychological, and spiritual, to name a few. As a licensed therapist, the author offers clinical, medical, and psychological perspectives through in-depth and foundational data into the causes for becoming an abuser and the impact abuse has on its victims.

Secondly, each chapter exudes a mastery on its subject matter, all while presented in a manner that non-clinicians can understand. Anderson presents the hard truths that some abuse victims need to hear in order to jolt them into choosing life rather than abuse and potential death. In Chapter 14, titled “Barriers to Leaving,” she states: “Some victims decide to stay solely because their family will look down upon them for leaving and some have actually been told, ‘It can’t be that bad, stay, don’t give up.’ The truth is that your family can either HELP YOU PACK or HELP PLAN YOUR FUNERAL SERVICE!”

What adds to the book’s depth, intensity, and efficaciousness is the author’s way of leaving the reader with hope, along with sound exit strategies. Anderson truthfully and professionally captures the essence of the abused as well as the abuser.

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Measuring the Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Survivors of Color

Research & Findings by Elena Ruíz, Ph.D., Yanet Ruvalcaba, M.S., Nora Berenstain Ph.D. and Steph Fluegeman, MPH, Research

Data from a study conducted earlier this summer shows that financial security enables safety by reducing the likelihood of returning to a harm-doer, and COVID-19-related financial insecurity is greatest among Black and Brown women survivors. The study also shows that survivors of color who are essential workers are especially at risk of facing serious food and housing insecurity.

This report, produced by ‘me too.’ in partnership with FreeFrom was made possible by researchers Elena Ruíz, Ph.D., Yanet Ruvalcaba, M.S., Nora Berenstain Ph.D. and Steph Fluegeman, MPH

The multiplicative and compounding socio-economic effects of COVID-19 on survivors of color represent a call to action for social investment in survivors’ lives that cannot wait.

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