Claiming The Politics of My Survival: A Male Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse Tells His Story

Posted on September 14, 2019 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

In March of 2018, as part of Nassau Community College’s Sexual Harassment/Assault
Awareness program, I was invited to give a talk about my experience as a survivor of childhood sexual violence. I received my copy of the video of the talk just last week, and since there may be readers of Alas who are interested, I am posting it now. (I also posted the text of the talk here.)

 

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3 Responses to Claiming The Politics of My Survival: A Male Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse Tells His Story

  1. Nancy Lebovitz says:
    September 16, 2019 at 3:55 am

    There’s also the angle of adults vs. children and teenagers privilege, though that obviously doesn’t cover all the sexual abuse which happens to me.

  2. Richard Jeffrey Newman says:
    September 16, 2019 at 4:45 am

    Thanks for commenting, Nancy. I confess, though, I’m having a hard time understanding what you’re referring to and what you mean.

  3. Nancy Lebovitz says:
    September 16, 2019 at 9:20 am

    Sorry, I meant that a lot of the time, what happens to children gets ignored in favor of what’s convenient for adults.

    My usual example is the long hard fight it’s taken to get even a little progress with later start times for high school.

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