A day after a court overturned his sexual-assault conviction, the entertainer is home and #MeToo victim’s rights activists are outraged
“As a society, we have enabled a system of abuse and power to allow predators such as Cosby to get away with what he did for as long as he did,” said victims’ rights expert Jennifer Storm…
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April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month: an event intended to create space for survivors’ voices, shed light on the insidious nature of sexual violence and amplify calls to action. But this month-long focus on sexual assault can be painful for survivors.
“We have all these events and opportunities to dialogue and create awareness…
It’s one of those perfect days when the sun is casting its brilliance and holding court in a crystal-blue sky.
The last hold of winter evaporates on my deck as spring is declaring its rightful, albeit late, place on the calendar.
It’s May, and it has been a long and strange transition from season to season. I am venturing out for my weekly grocery run.
I roll down the windows as Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin'” comes on the radio. I turn it up and embrace that amazing feeling of driving with the windows down for the first time in months, cool air on my face and all the promises of warm weather…
This post first appeared on Caron.org and was written as a guest writer in their blog for Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Trauma and Post-Traumatic Growth
I am a rape survivor. I was 12 years old when I was first raped, an experience that shattered everything I thought I knew. Neither my parents nor I knew how to cope…
Blackout GirlA Documentary Film based on the Memoir by Jennifer Stormby Sylvia Caminer, Tracy Schott, and Jennifer Storm
Shining a light on dark secrets reveals the path to recovery.
A 12-year old girl is raped during an alcohol-induced blackout, beginning a ten-year journey into darkness. Jennifer Storm’s story teaches us important lessons about the role of trauma in addiction and illuminates a new pathway to recovery…
Jennifer Storm addresses several media outlets during a press conference about Jerry Sandusky and why it took multiple accusers to bring down a serial predator. The Office of Attorney General came under fire for not immediately responding to the first allegation against Jerry Sandusky, that was due in part to their knowledge and belief that there were many more victims out there and they wanted to build a solid case against Sandusky, Storm further discussed how the culture of sexual violence often discredits single accusers when the accused in a celebrity or well-known person in the community.
Today Jennifer Storm, Danielle Hall Count and DolGer Films announce an option deal to produce a film based on the screenplay adaptation of the memoir, Blackout Girl: Growing Up and Drying Out in America, published in 2008 by Hazelden Publishing. Jennifer Storm and Danielle Hall Count co-wrote the screenplay adaptation of the award winning memoir…
On Monday morning in the Dauphin County Courthouse three Penn State top ranking officials will be in court for their preliminary hearing on charges of failure to report child abuse and perjury. As of now, Jerry Sandusky has been convicted on 45 of the original 48 charges of sexual assault because the victims in this case took the stand to testify about what Sandusky did to them…
I was pondering yesterday about the ripple effects that sexual violence creates in the lives of so many, particularly within ones own self-esteem and comfort level with sex thereafter. At times I can be so hard on myself, thinking that after 26 years from the first act of violence I endured should be a thing of the past…
Today we will finally see long awaited charges filed against The Pennsylvania State University President Graham Spanier say sources to The Post-Gazette. This is a day so many of us have been waiting for--judgement day for Spanier, accountability for his lack of leadership and his failure to act. From the first day in November when the grand jury presentment was released I said publicly that he needed to be charged…