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PW's First Book-Length Work Collects the Personal Stories of Sexual-Abuse Survivors and Their Loved Ones

What you are about to read is a selection of eight first-person stories chosen from our first ebook that all capture, in their own way, the long and turbulent recovery people affected by sexual abuse must endure.

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Posted Nov. 14, 2012 | Comments: 16
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NEWS AND OPINION > SPECIAL PROJECTS > SURVIVING SEXUAL ABUSE

By Nina Hoffmann

PW to Read From Its First Book, "The Survivors Project," at the Free Library

"The Survivors Project" is a compendium of more than 50 personal essays about the challenges associated with healing from sexual abuse.

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Posted Nov. 13, 2012 | Comments: 0
RELATED: PW's First Book-Length Work Collects the Personal Stories of Sexual-Abuse Survivors and Their Loved Ones

NEWS AND OPINION > SPECIAL PROJECTS > SURVIVING SEXUAL ABUSE

By Nina Hoffmann

PW Announces Deadline for Upcoming Sexual-Abuse Awareness Project

There's still plenty of time to submit a first-person account of the challenges associated with healing. The deadline is Friday, Sept. 28. Selected essays will be published in the Nov. 14 issue of Philadelphia Weekly and in a subsequent book.

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Posted Aug. 29, 2012 | Comments: 1
RELATED: PW Seeks First-Person Essays From Sexual-Abuse Survivors and Their Loved Ones

NEWS AND OPINION > SPECIAL PROJECTS > SURVIVING SEXUAL ABUSE

By Nina Hoffmann

PW Seeks First-Person Essays From Sexual-Abuse Survivors and Their Loved Ones

We need to hear from you—the survivor, the loved one, the advocate. We need you to tell your story, in your own words. To do so would help bring to light the one thing that’s missing from the national conversation: the reality of what it’s like to heal from the devastating effects of sexual abuse.

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Posted Jun. 27, 2012 | Comments: 7
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