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The Stigma

By Tamara Westfall ⋅ August 19, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Nobody wants to say outright that victims of domestic violence are socially shameful and completely unacceptable, but the conviction is still there. Having your personal growth and perception of the world twisted like a rag at the hands of a sociopath is a popular taboo. It’s a stigma by which victims live with every single [...]

Will Fellows: Shall Not Be Recognized co-creator —part III

By Arno Michaels ⋅ July 18, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Will Fellows is the author of Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest, A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Culture, and the forthcoming Gay Bar: The Fabulous, True Story of a Daring Woman and Her Boys in the 1950s. Producing a heartfelt written compliment to Jeff Pearcy’s powerful photography, Will completed the gay-straight [...]

America, Refined

By Angie Aker ⋅ June 19, 2010 ⋅ One comment

The first in a series… June 18, 2011 We’re walking through the wreckage of what used to be Nashville today. I don’t want to walk anymore, but Mom says if we can find a car to get to her friend Rob’s place in Chicago, that we can all figure out what to do together from [...]

Life After Hate: 4th issue!

By Angie Aker ⋅ April 19, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

It’s Issue 4, Life After Hate readers! As Arno, all of our contributors and I have crafted each issue, it’s been interesting to see how the gestalt of each month’s cumulative work has a particular personality. Some issues come out very extroverted, celebratory and community-oriented. Some issues come out very serious and brave and confront [...]

Shall Not Be Recognized

By Natali Huess ⋅ March 18, 2010 ⋅ One comment

“Richard was the light and love of my life. He always, always encouraged me. Every problem that came up, he was there for me. He provided such balance for me and he was so protective of me and I of him. I was always afraid I would die first and that he wouldn’t get my [...]

dolor

By Arno Michaels ⋅ January 13, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

(chapter 1 of 11 in “My Life After Hate”) Human beings will never be free from pain, nor should we ever be. Pain is an invaluable teacher as well as a builder of character and vehicle of spiritual growth. But not all pain is necessary, or necessarily constructive. We, as human beings face a choice: [...]

Sammy Rangel “FOURBEARS: Myths of Forgiveness”

FourBears: The Myth of Forgiveness: isn't a simple memoir; it is a graphically illustrated guide from tortured child, to remorseless beast, to healing and change. This book is about helping others find their way out of their history and into the here and now. Proof that what once held you down can now hold you up. After the book reflects on a horrific upbringing it looks to offer key and ground breaking insights of the inner workings of the mind of a victim and later a perpetrator of hate and violence. Service providers working in treatment centers and institutional settings would greatly benefit from this work. Anyone facing issues with forgiveness and change might find a process toward healing and recovery.