Join the Fight
Originally Published: Nov 3, 2025 Are you fighting to end child sexual violence? Yes, it’s a fight — and this article joins that fight. Dr. Cindy Blackstock First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada and Dr. Pam Palmater co-authored an open-access academic article in the Genealogy journal MDPI called CLASH ACTIONS: INIDGENOUS PEOPLES […]
Brave Space
Originally Published: Nov 12, 2025 I took a cyber holiday for a few days — I had to. I’m exhausted. This morning I woke up, opened LinkedIn, not sure what I’d write. And there you were, Nneka Allen, CFRE, COC, PCC — my professor, my reminder, my mirror. You are a gift. You are powerful. […]
Book Launch
Originally published: Nov. 16, 2025 I am so excited. I was going to wait until tomorrow to share this, but honestly? I’m like a kid on the morning of their birthday — buzzing, pacing, and absolutely incapable of sitting quietly. I’m having my very first book launch. And so is The Gatehouse, who has graciously […]
There’s Nothing Minor About Our Children
Originally Published: Nov 7, 2025 In Canada, a “minor” is anyone under the age of 18. I’ve always loved words — their origins, their hidden meanings, the way they shape how we think. I even love counting and making lists; it calms me. My brother was like that too. We used to love doing inventory […]
Exactly
Originally Published: Nov 13, 2025 14,096 days. 338,297 hours. 20,297,790 minutes. 1,217,867,400 seconds. That’s how long I have left — a lifetime measured not in fear, but in purpose. My mission is clear: to fight to end child sexual violence. With justice. And with love. June 18, 2064, 3 p.m. — I will draw my […]
Healing Through Cold Water and Community
Originally Published: Nov 1, 2025 On Sunday mornings, you’ll often find me at the lake — standing in freezing water for two minutes that feel like forever… and like freedom. Cold-water immersion has become my version of church. Not because of the ritual itself, but because of what happens inside my body and mind when […]
The Original War: How Child Sexual Violence Built a Rape Culture
Originally Published: Oct 31 2025 What Do Pocahontas and Pretty Woman have in Common? They were both females caught in systems that treated them as property, not people. They were sex slaves fighting to survive a rape culture. To force anyone into sexual slavery, you must first dehumanize them — strip away rights, dignity, and […]
Is Child Sexual Violence Higher in Canada?
Originally published October 29.2025. Is Child Sexual Violence Higher in Canada? From the age of three until I was 18, I was repeatedly subjected to child sexual violence by people I trusted. I am not alone. In Canada, approximately 1 in 4 women and 1 in 6 men report experiencing child sexual violence before age […]