The Sexual Assault Services for Holistic Healing & Awareness (SASHA Center) is hosting the Metamorph-Sis Book Club. Join this group every Thursday from February 17th to March 31st at 6:00pm where they will focus on healing journeys, self-recovery after trauma, and loving with accountability. Within this series, they will read chapters from the anthology, Love WITH Accountability: Digging up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse by Aishah Shahida Simmons, to discuss identity within Black womanhood from an intersectional lens, gendered racial socialization, managing trauma, grief, accountable love, and transformative justice. They will participate in relationship-building activities, read excerpts of the book, discussion, and reflection.

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SASHA CENTER is a sexual assault service, prevention and educational agency which is designed to provide educational/support groups to survivors of sexual assault.

About Love WITH Accountability

Despite the current survivor-affirming awareness around sexual violence, child sexual abuse, most notably when it’s a family member or friend, is still a very taboo topic. There are approximately 42 million child sexual abuse survivors in the U.S. and millions of bystanders who look the other way as the abuse occurs and cover for the harm-doers with no accountability. Documentary filmmaker and survivor of child sexual abuse and adult rape, Aishah Shahidah Simmons invites diasporic Black people to join her in transformative storytelling that envisions a world that ends child sexual abuse without relying on the criminal justice system. Love WITH Accountability features compelling writings by child sexual abuse survivors, advocates, and Simmons’s mother, who underscores the detrimental impact of parents/caregivers not believing their children when they disclose their sexual abuse. This collection explores disrupting the inhumane epidemic of child sexual abuse, humanely.