Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse
In this session, the African-American panelists, all of whom are survivors and one is a former bystander to her child’s CSA, Love WITH Accountability editor, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, and two of the anthology contributors, Mel Anthony Phillips and Dr. Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, will each highlight the need to prioritize compassionately disrupting and ending child sexual abuse. These are forms of radical racial, gender, and healing justice outside of policing and prisons.
Speakers:
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Cultural Worker, #LoveWITHAccountability® & NO! The Rape Documentary
Mel Anthony Phillips, Artist in Residence,OAASIS: Oregon Abuse Advocates & Survivors in Service
Dr. Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Professor Emerita,University of Florida