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In ‘Vietnam War,’ Ken Burns Wrestles With The Conflict’s Contradictions

Burns says he and co-director Lynn Novick initially thought they understood the Vietnam War. But when they started putting together their new PBS series, they realized, “We knew nothing.”

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“A patient suffering from dementia has been robbed of proper functioning, of reasoning, of relationships with their loved ones, of everything. The disease has looted them of their ability to exist in this reality. Rather than pulling them back into your world, through a door that has been locked and barred by a merciless disease, step into theirs. Grant them that composure that their reality is valid, because it’s all they have left.”

Quotes from a social worker in the hospital.

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VYMSPIRATION: “When We Fight, We Win! - Twenty-First Century Social Movements and the Activists That Are Transforming Our World” (2016) Created by long-time activist Greg Jobin-Leeds and AgitArte (an organization made up of artists who create work in solidarity with marginalized communities) this book is explores how important social change movements like Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and the fight for a $15 minimum wage are connected, and how activists and artists create those movements. An inspirational (and practical) guide, “When We Fight, We Win!” shows us the great power we have to enact change in the world!

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Resources for Male Rape/Abuse Survivors: Articles,Books, Webpages and Blogs

Articles & Links

RAINN’s Article on Male Sexual Assault

Male Sexual Assault

Men And Sexual Trauma

Male Rape & Assault: Dispelling the Myths

Myths about male rape

Silent Victims: Bring Male Rape Out of the Closet

RELATIONSHIPS; COUNSELING MALE RAPE VICTIMS

Sexual abuse of males, prevalence, possible lasting effects and resources

Male to Male Child Sexual Abuse in the Context of Homophobia

Treatment Needs of Sexually Abused Men

Female Perpetrators and male sexual abuse victims: Society betrayal of boys

Male Rape survivors

The Hard Truth About Girl-on-Guy Rape

Against his will: Female-on-male rape

Books For Male Rape/Abuse/Incest Survivors

Books for Male Rape Survivors

Male On Male Rape: The Hidden Toll of Stigma and Shame

Understanding Male Sexual Abuse: Why Male Victims Remain Silent

To the Survivors: One Man’s Journey as a Rape Crisis Counselor with True Stories of Sexual Violence

Echoes of Innocence - Survivor [Kindle Edition]

Male Rape: The Emergence of a Social and Legal Issue

Women Who Rape Men (Female Sex Predators)

Not Quite Healed: 40 Truths for Male Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse

The Male Survivor: The Impact of Sexual Abuse [Kindle Edition]

Evicting the Perpetrator: A Male Survivor Guide to Recovery from Childhood Sexual Abuse

Victims No Longer: The Classic Guide for Men Recovering from Sexual Child Abuse

Opening The Door: A Treatment Model For Therapy With Male Survivors Of Sexual Abuse

Male Survivors: 12-Step Recovery Program for Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse : With Exercises for Personal Growth

One out of Six and Many, Many, More: A Collection of Poetry from a Male Survivor of Sexual Abuse

In Cabin Six : An Anthology of Poetry by Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse

Adult Male Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse

Silent Rage: African American Boys and Sexual Abuse [Kindle Edition]

Blogs and Pages for Male Rape Survivors

Breaking the culture of silence-a place for male survivors to share experiences, connect, and heal. You are not alone.

Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse

MenWeb - Men’s Voices: Surviving and Living Male Survivors of Childhood Sex Abuse

Mpower- Supporting Male Survivors of Abuse

Male Survivor- Overcoming sexual victimization of boys and men

Living Well Resource for men who have been sexually abused or assaulted

Men Raped Support Forum

SurvivorsUK -Help and counselling for male survivors of rape and abuse in the UK

Mankind- Resources and support services for male survivors of sexual assault and abuse

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What To Do If Someone You Care About Has Been Raped

If you are a friend or family member of someone who has been raped, you may feel that you do not know what to say. Just being there and listening is helpful. Here are some ideas for how you can be supportive:

Validate and believe her. If she feels ashamed or guilty, reassure her that the rape was not her fault and that her feelings are normal. Even if you feel you might have reacted differently, remember that her reactions are uniquely hers.

Help her create a safe place for herself. Help her to think about what changes, if any, she would like to make that will help her feel safer, whether related to her physical surroundings or her interactions with people at home or at work.

Allow her to express a full range of feelings. The feelings of a survivor of sexual assault can be very strong. Expressing these powerful feelings in a safe environment is an important part of the healing process. You can be very helpful if you feel comfortable supporting her in expressing feelings of anger, sorrow, frustration, and fear.

Offer options, not opinions. Survivors often struggle with important and complex decisions. You can be most helpful by helping her identify all of the options available and supporting her in her decision-making.

Dispel myths about rape. You can empower a woman who has been sexually assaulted by helping her dispel destructive myths about rape and assuring her that you do not believe these false ideas.

Advocate. She may need someone to help ensure that her feelings are validated and her rights are upheld in the medical or legal system.

Take her to the hospital or a rape crisis counselor. She may feel more comfortable going to these places with a friend.

Believe in the possibility of healing. Let her know that you believe that healing is possible and that she has the strength and capacity to heal.

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OUR BODIES OUR SELVES, A Course By And For Women. — A print of the front cover of the 1971 edition of “Our Bodies Our Selves” that became a widespread women’s education resource in the 1970s. The booklet was published by the Boston Women’s Health Collective. Largely promoted by word of mouth, this edition sold over 250,000 copies. It contains information related to many aspects of women’s health and sexuality, including sexual health, sexual orientation, gender identity, birth control, abortion, pregnancy, childbirth, violence and abuse and menopause. #herstory #women #feminism #queer #lgbt #lesbian #sexualhealth #ourbodiesourselves #womenshealth #identity #booklet #bookdesign #bostonwomenshealthcollective #womenunite

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Peter Joseph on structural violence, from this video.

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Brilliant

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Spot on. Like Coretta Scott King said, I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.

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“This logic around [black-on-black] crime has always served a larger political purpose. It allows us to disqualify those communities from our structural investments. They are their own worst enemies, we say. We have no obligation to help these people until they help themselves.”

— Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of history, race and public policy at Harvard University.

Using the “black-on-black crime” argument against Black Lives Matter is deflective, opportunistic and destructive.

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6 memoirs by LGBT Indigenous people

Thunder Through My Veins, by Gregory Scofield (Metis)

Bad Indians, by Deborah A. Miranda (Esselen/Chumash)

Trauma Queen, by Lovemme Corazon (Mexican-American/Athabaskan)

A Two-Spirit Journey, by Ma-Nee Chacaby (Ojibwe/Cree)

Redefining Realness, by Janet Mock (African-American/Hawaiian)

Maori Boy, by Witi Ihimaera (Maori)

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Look, without our stories, without the true nature and reality of who we are as People of Color, nothing about fanboy or fangirl culture would make sense. What I mean by that is: if it wasn’t for race, X-Men doesn’t make sense. If it wasn’t for the history of breeding human beings in the New World through chattel slavery, Dune doesn’t make sense. If it wasn’t for the history of colonialism and imperialism, Star Wars doesn’t make sense. If it wasn’t for the extermination of so many Indigenous First Nations, most of what we call science fiction’s contact stories doesn’t make sense. Without us as the secret sauce, none of this works, and it is about time that we understood that we are the Force that holds the Star Wars universe together. We’re the Prime Directive that makes Star Trek possible, yeah. In the Green Lantern Corps, we are the oath. We are all of these things—erased, and yet without us—we are essential.

Junot Díaz, “The Junot Díaz Episode“ (18 November 2013) on Fan Bros, a podcast “for geek culture via people of colors” (via kynodontas)

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When someone’s angry we tend to get angry in return. But responding in an unexpected way is a valid tool in psychotherapy, and it can help make everyday relationships work better, too.

Don’t Do What I Do: How Getting Out Of Sync Can Help Relationships

Illustration: Nicole Xu for NPR

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Trauma’s epigenetic fingerprint observed in children of Holocaust survivors

The children of traumatized people have long been known to be at increased risk for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and mood and anxiety disorders. However, according to Rachel Yehuda from the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai who led a new study in Biological Psychiatry, there are very few opportunities to examine biologic alterations in the context of a watershed trauma in exposed people and their adult children born after the event.

One of the most intensively studied groups in this regard are the children of survivors of the Nazi concentration camps. From the work of Yehuda and others, there has been growing evidence that concentration camp survivors and their children might show changes in the epigenetic regulation of genes.

Epigenetic processes alter the expression of a gene without producing changes in the DNA sequence. DNA methylation is one of these epigenetic modifications, which regulates genome function through processes that add or remove a methyl group to a specific site in DNA, potentially affecting gene transcription.

Animal studies have demonstrated that epigenetic changes from stress exposure can be passed on to the offspring. In the new study, Yehuda and colleagues examine these relationships for the first time in humans, with methylation of FKBP5, a stress-related gene that has been associated with PTSD and depression. The researchers examined blood samples of 32 Holocaust survivors and 22 of their adult children, and Jewish parent-offspring control pairs for methylation of intron 7, a specific region within the FKBP5 gene.

The analysis revealed that both Holocaust survivors and their offspring show epigenetic changes at the same site of FKBP5 intron 7, but in the opposite direction; Holocaust survivors had 10% higher methylation than control parents, whereas Holocaust offspring had 7.7% lower methylation than control offspring.

“These observations suggest that parental trauma is a relevant contributor to offspring biology,” said Yehuda.

Rachel Yehuda et al, Holocaust Exposure Induced Intergenerational Effects on FKBP5 Methylation, Biological Psychiatry (2016). DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.08.005

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The 13th, a new documentary by Selma director Ava DuVernay, is now streaming on Netflix. It’s about the loophole in the 13th amendment, which outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude, "except as a punishment for crime.” In the film we hear from activist Angela Davis, Sen. Cory Booker, The New Jim Crow author Michelle Alexander and Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson, on the subject of mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex.

Bryan Stevenson spoke to Fresh Air in 2014 about justice in the 21st century:

“The new statistic from the Justice [Department] is really disheartening: The Justice Department is now reporting that 1 in 3 black male babies born in the 21st century is expected to go to jail or prison. The statistic for Latino boys is 1 in 6. That statistic was not true in the 20th century. It was not true in the 19th century. It didn’t become true until the 21st century. That means we have enormous work to do to improve our commitment to [a] society that is not haunted and undermined and corrupted by our legacy of racial inequality.

The same is true for poverty. We’ve got a bigger population of poor people in this country than we’ve had in a generation, and we’ve got to take on the challenges of poverty. … For me, that means taking it on in a different way. I’m not persuaded that the opposite of poverty is wealth — I’ve come to believe … that the opposite of poverty is justice.”

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“I LOVE and SUPPORT our GAY and LESBIAN SENIOR CITIZENS – Project Rainbow – SSGLC” pinback, c. 1982. @amhistorymuseum. Incorporated in 1980 as the Society for Senior Gay and Lesbian Citizens, Project Rainbow opened its first senior activity center in Los Angeles in 1982. #lgbthistory #lgbtherstory #lgbttheirstory #lgbtpride #lgbtseniorsmatter

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especially trans gay and lesbian senior citizens

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In 1997 the International Sociological Association carried on an opinion survey in order to identify the most influential books for sociologists. Here the top 10 (and the top 100 in the link) I just wonder, whether the results, or their rank order, of 2013 book survey would be different? I think they definitely would! **What do you think? What is missing in this list in your view? What should be added or bounced up? Please let us know in the comments.** 1. Weber, Max: Economy and Society, 20.9% 2. Mills, Charles Wright: The Sociological Imagination, 13.0% 3. Merton, Robert K.: Social Theory and Social Structure, 11.4% 4. Weber, Max: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 10.3% 5. Berger, P.L. and Luckmann, T.: The Social Construction of Reality, 9,9% 6. Bourdieu, Pierre: Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste, 9.5% 7. Elias, Norbert: The Civilizing Process, 6.6% 8. Habermas, Jürgen: The Theory of Communicative Action, 6.4% 9. Parsons, Talcott: The Structure of Social Action , 6.2% 10. Goffman, Erving: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, 5.5%

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