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| The return of Thought-Stirring Questions! |
[Jul. 15th, 2009|12:29 am] |
Hello, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) _survivors_!
Those of you who have been members for over a year or so may remember our weekly Thought-Stirring Questions. Each Tuesday, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) sistahraven would post both a public and friends-only entry containing some sort of reflective topic relating to abuse and recovery. Members could freely respond to either or both entries and share their personal experiences with the topic. If you'd like to check out some examples, feel free to click on the tag used for this entry, which will lead you to all of the past Thought-Stirring Questions.
So, without further ado, I'd like to announce the return of Thought-Stirring Questions to the community! sistahraven and I will be posting new questions again on a weekly basis, most likely on Tuesdays. If you're an older member, we hope you enjoy the return of this great feature, and if you're newer, we'd like to welcome you to take part in sharing your thoughts!
Here is tonight's Thought-Stirring Question:
At times, sexual assault has been referred to in the news and online as a "women's issue" and the survivors we see on television are frequently young, middle-class and white. However, we know that any gender, orientation, age or race can be subjected to abuse, often creating circumstances that are uniquely challenging to those specific groups.
How have these things affected you as a survivor?
--Do you feel that you were targeted because of how you define yourself or who you are?
--Or, alternatively, have you changed the way you define yourself based on your abuse?
--How has society treated you as a result of either situation?
--What things have you found particularly challenging as a result? |
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| Petition |
[Jul. 8th, 2009|07:06 pm] |
Hello my fellow survivors,
I hope you are all doing wonderfully today. Being here already shows how incredibly strong we are.
I am writing to pass on a petition in Singapore which aims to abolish immunity of legal punishment to perpetraters of marital rape. Please help me pass on the petition; hopefully more Singaporeans or Permanent Residents of Singapore will be aware of this petition and sign it.
Thanks, and stay safe. |
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| Welcome our two Deputy Mods! |
[Jun. 11th, 2009|02:37 pm] |
As noted in my previous post, we are bringing on two Deputy mods!
joonzmoon and blueserenity22 will be joining the mod team, and helping us keep track of posts, comments, and helping us to reorganize our tags and memories.
Both have been active in this community for quite some time, and volunteered to help with keeping this community active and thriving. While "maintainer status" (for those who know what that means) will be temporary, they have the full sanction of the Mod Team to make official requests for trigger warnings, LJ-cuts, and to assist with member conflict. Their focus will be on the community and members, making sure each member feels safe and supported.
If either of them make a request of you, you are expected to respond the same as you would to myself, briar_witch, volare, or druidwolf.
They have also volunteered to help leave comments to posts. We often suffer from lulls in comments, over holidays and weekends especially, and they have committed to leaving comments as often as they can.
So please, give them a warm welcome. We have grown and changed significantly since this community's inception - and we're happy to have some new folks added to the mix to help keep us moving! |
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| Mod Post: Changes are a-coming |
[Jun. 11th, 2009|02:28 pm] |
There will be some changes coming to the community, so we wanted to keep you informed:
- A new, complete, tag system. This will help act both as a second means of warning for triggers, but also make it easy to find posts by people in similar situations. We've tried this on and off over the years, but we'll have a solid system we can maintain for the future. This is a huge undertaking, and might take a few weeks, as we'll be tagging posts all the way back to the beginning of this community. So if you tag your community posts, please refer to our tag list. If you don't tag - don't worry! We'll tag any untagged posts made to the community.
- A new memories system. All mod posts, announcements, rules changes, etc. will be kept together in memories for easy reference. For the first time, we will also be offering a member-specific memories tag. This will be an OPT-IN ONLY feature, and I'll make a post later about how to opt in. This way, you can see your posts over the months and years, and track your progress. Also, you can keep track of good suggestions, advice, support, or resources. Again, this will be opt-in, so only those interested will have their own memories label, and I will give more details when that becomes available. Credit must be given to the dog community petbulls for inspiring this idea!
- The return of Thought Stirring Questions: Before my and druidwolf's daughter was born, I posted weekly questions about an aspect of being a survivor, as a prompt to help with processing and recovery. It became a time for members to talk about what they experienced and how it affected them, what was helpful for recovery, and it also meant we got to know each other better. It fell to the wayside because of a lack of time, but it will be returning! They will likely be every other week to start, and possibly moving up to every week.
- The last, but certainly the happiest announcement? We will be bringing on two Deputy Mods!. Two of our active members, joonzmoon and blueserenity22 have been instrumental in helping us initiate these changes, and we're happy to have them on the team. They are going to be doing a lot of the reorganizing of the tags and memories along with the rest of the mods, and have volunteered to make sure entries get plenty of comments. Also, they will be able to make official Mod Requests on our behalf. I will make a separate post about this as well, but please give them a warm welcome to the team. While they will not be listed as "maintainers" for the community, they do have the mod team's support in making requests and suggestions.
There might be even more new things, but we'll announce them as they come. Thanks to all of you for making this a wonderful community. The biggest and most active survivor group on Livejournal would be nothing without its members and volunteers. |
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| so-called "professionals" and you |
[May. 27th, 2009|02:55 pm] |
very triggery - cut for BDSM triggers, assignments, allusions to abuse history, shrink not believing me, negating my lifestyle, not believing me and not helping with my meds. also swearing.
( here ) |
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[May. 17th, 2009|01:28 pm] |
We're playing with the color theme of the community today, for those of us who don't read the entries via our friends page. So if the colors keep changing, don't worry - it's me! :) |
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