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Reviewed: August 19th, 2011
Telling Our Stories: Learning From Our Experience
Everyone has a story to tell. That is true of individuals, it is true of institutions and it is true of communities. In Washington State, the story of sexual assault prevention can be told from many perspectives. The stories come from organizers, from stakeholders, from allies and from community participants in the prevention initiatives that are presently under way.
As the social change activists who comprise the musical group Sweet Honey In The Rock have said, “We are the leaders we have been waiting for.” Our communities are in varying stages of readiness to take on changing the conditions that promote and support sexual violence. Each of those communities contains the leaders we have been waiting for. It is our task to engage, promote and support that leadership to end sexual violence. These are the stories of some community sexual assault program prevention workers who have joined with their communities to make social change together.
