Coercive Control and Sex Trafficking: Keeping Our Children Safe
This blog provides a slide show with resources used by author Geraldine Donaher in her writing and presentations.
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Shedding Light on Dark Realities (original post with Parisian Phoenix Publishing)
Writing About Difficult Topics Visit Parisian Phoenix Publishing f or the full post. I read Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These. Her writing has the bare-minimum quality that is refreshing to read. Too many words and sometimes a story gets lost. Keegan reveals the horrors of trafficking by the Catholic Church through the tender eyes of the empathetic protagonist, Bill Furlong. He sees what everyone in his community refuses to acknowledge. . . systemic social injust
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Coercion... and Chocolate Cake
With Diddy all over the news, I get a lot of questions about his behavior... and Cassie’s willingness to go along. Though young, Cassie Ventura was not a minor when Diddy started asking her to perform for him. If she was just shy of her 18th birthday, even by just a week, this trial would look very different. She would have been a minor and he would be guilty. But she wasn’t a minor. She met Diddy at 19. They started dating when she was 21. Cassie said she did what the 39
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