Astraea's Politics:
Abuse Survivorship & Awareness

Childhood Sexual and Gender Abuse Issues

Female Genital Cutting and Mutilation: Networking and Education

Female Genital Mutilation in America An article from the New York Times. Speaks frankly & openly on a subject that has been covered up for many years. Don't ever let anyone tell you that this only happens in Africa and Asia. Touted as a cure for everything from masturbation to UTI's, a preventative for infertility and lesbianism or just to "look more normal". Ain't it lovely?

Making the Cut By Martha Coventry. Gives you some background. Is this still going on? Yes.

Tyranny of the Aesthetic By Martha Coventry. It isn't always a question of being intersexed.

"Natural Causes" by Peter Feibleman. It is fiction, but loaded with genuine facts.

Doctors Against Circumcision Putting an end to routine male circumcision.

Cut babies and the horror of sex A history of male circumcision and why we think it's "healthy". (This website has many wonderful articles on censorship, homosexuality and culture.)

Intersex Society of North America To end shame, secrecy, and unwanted genital surgeries for people born with atypical sex anatomy.

Drop the Barbie! Gender-atypical children -- that's little girls who play with firetrucks, folks -- are institutionalized, drugged and conditioned in sometimes brutal programs. It's all to cure them of Gender Identity Disorder.

A 'Real Boy' and Not A Sissy A history of the psychiatric view of gender and masculinity. Extremely revealing.

Bullies and School Shootings

Services & Resources for Abuse Survivors

Self-harm Resources

Survivors' Network of those Abused by Priests

SANCTUARY: Safe Network Community, The Underground Abuse Resource was begun as an online forum on spousal abuse, it's open not only to all abuse survivors but to friends and supportive family. It is run as a MUD (Multi-User Dimension), and is essentially a very large, complex set of chat rooms and bulletin boards.

Title: For Your Own Good: Hidden Brutality in Child-Rearing, and the Roots of Violence Author: Dr. Alice Miller Publisher: Noonday ISBN: 0374522693

If you think you were never abused, read this book. Most people do suffer some form of brutality in childhood -- often covert, emotional or intellectual stifling -- and it does affect their thinking and feeling in later life. "It made me stronger" often simply means "it made me numb". This is not a whiny book, nor is it a Bradshaw feel-good hugfest. Child abuse exists. Don't revisit it on your kids.

This book is now available in its entirety on line. Click here to read For Your Own Good in free e-text.

Alice Miller Blog

Alice Miller Page

Mindfreedom Traditional mental health "treatments" for abuse not doing you any good? Go here.

Autism

Stop the murder of autistic children by their families

Rettdevil's rants Autistic woman gives her point of view on autism and how the 'epidemic' is being handled by the media.

Autism Vox Mother of an autistic child gets on her soapbox.

An Open Letter To Parents Considering Intensive Behavioral Therapy For Their Child With Autism Courtesy of Virgynia King. A stinging indictment of behaviorist methods. Applies to all children -- not just autistics. If you feel your child needs therapy, please consider play therapy or some other non-behaviorist method.

No Autistics Allowed Explorations in discrimination against autistics. What are non-autistic people deciding for autistic people? Pay particular attention to Bettelheim's Worst Crime: Autism and the Epidemic of Irresponsibility. OF INTEREST TO ABUSE SURVIVORS.

Also of interest: Ballastexistenz 'Severely autistic' does not mean incapable of thought or expression.

Jim Sinclair's Website About Autism

Autism, A Way Of Life

Title: Not Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism Author: Paul Collins Publisher: Bloomsbury USA ISBN: 1582343675 By the father of a child who may or may not be on the "spectrum" - unique among parental accounts because of its lack of tragedy. Instead of seeing his son as a victim of a horrible devastating illness, Collins saw his son's unique reading and mathematical abilities and his love of computers over people as part of what was right about the kid. He researched history to find individuals who may or may not have been autistic, and to find out just exactly what autism is. Collins' message is that it's a mistake to try to force we autistics into so called normality. He learns to communicate with his son through picture cards and he finds an autistic program in a school where the children are allowed to learn through their own special interests. Simply letting autistic people be autistic is such a revolutionary idea! But it may well be the future. A review of Not Even Wrong, by Jay Young If you are interested in books by autistic authors, try Amanda Baggs' Autistic Authors Booklist.

Discrediting "False Memory Syndrome" and the FMSF

Help Stop Psychiatric Abuse!

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