Sexual Violence & Trauma

This comic strip explores a scenario in which a woman is asked to sign an NDA after reporting her supervisor for sexual harassment.

Trauma can lead to chronic pain and other physical conditions, sometimes years after the event.

Carrie shares her experience of sexual assault, from the perspective of someone who has grown up deaf and uses hearing technology.

In this podcast episode, Dr. Shena Young, a licensed body-centered psychologist, healer, artist, and survivor, encourages us to move beyond Western approaches of healing. Young provides guidance on holistic healing that recognizes the effect of trauma on the body.

How do we end rape culture? Recognizing and naming it is an important beginning. This article discusses how rape culture harms us, ignoring and trivializing gender-based violence, and turning violence against women into entertainment.

This podcast explores one woman's personal experience of trafficking, as well as misconceptions of sex trafficking and sex work.

A diverse group of survivors of sexual assault talks about their recovery processes and their experiences with relationships, sex, and sexuality.

This UN article explains the inextricable connection between climate crisis and gender-based violence.

Know Your Rights is a comprehensive resource for both active duty and civilian victims of military sexual violence, sexual harassment, and retaliation.

This resource explains the practice of female genital mutilaiton (FGM), and why the international community recognizes it as a human rights violation.

This fact sheet gathers information about sexual violence, including at schools and as experienced by marginalized women and girls.

This piece, written by a sexual assault survivor, encourages us to forgive ourselves and realize that we are not the cause of our trauma.