The past month has been a blur of dreams.  Hard dreams coming true.  Pain blossoming into sweet petals of healing.

Conceptualizing the idea of this anthology began 13 years ago.  Call for submission, editing, book proposal, negotiating, waiting, galley reviews, begging for blurbs, outreaching on the branches of favors from good hearted writers and journalists and feminist-hearted media makers — all that took four years.

I’m going on a journey and I hope you come with me.  I’m going to promote the anthology all over the country.  I’m going to have discussions and workshops about why sexual violence is the global epidemic that it is.  I’m going to ask communities if they understand how to listen and heal themselves so they can help survivors heal as well.

I’m going on a journey to listen to and learn and offer the anthology as a tool to understand rape and sexual abuse from the eyes of the contributors.

Come with me.  Let’s do this together.