BOOK EXCERPTS: CALL IT ASSAULT! My continuing efforts to survive childhood sexual grooming and assault

Foreword - CALL IT ASSAULT! My continuing effor...

Linda Kay Gifford

“I want you to NOT feel sorry for me. Don’t just be moved by my soul. Be encouraged by my strength. Become self-aware from my conviction. Be energized to action,...

Foreword - CALL IT ASSAULT! My continuing effor...

Linda Kay Gifford

“I want you to NOT feel sorry for me. Don’t just be moved by my soul. Be encouraged by my strength. Become self-aware from my conviction. Be energized to action,...

Who I am, what I do, and a summary of intent for TEDx TALK; “Call it Assault!”

Who I am, what I do, and a summary of intent fo...

Linda Gifford

“So I give you permission to stop feeling sorry for me and those like me. Please! Pity is passive, and we Survivors need you to focus your attention and take...

Who I am, what I do, and a summary of intent fo...

Linda Gifford

“So I give you permission to stop feeling sorry for me and those like me. Please! Pity is passive, and we Survivors need you to focus your attention and take...

when Rage loses (Suicide)

when Rage loses (Suicide)

Linda Gifford

“When Rage loses, many will never survive to tell their story.” “Rage and I will stand together with Little Girl and defy Shame before an indecent society!”  L. K. Gifford

when Rage loses (Suicide)

Linda Gifford

“When Rage loses, many will never survive to tell their story.” “Rage and I will stand together with Little Girl and defy Shame before an indecent society!”  L. K. Gifford

In Plain Sight

In Plain Sight

Linda Gifford

 “If we don’t want our children to be viewed as sexual objects and commodities, then, among other, more immediate interventions, we’re going to have to change the language of society....

In Plain Sight

Linda Gifford

 “If we don’t want our children to be viewed as sexual objects and commodities, then, among other, more immediate interventions, we’re going to have to change the language of society....

Mad Cat with saying, “Yes! I am judging you as much as it looks like I am.

CALL IT ASSAULT!

Linda Gifford

I was NOT sexually groomed and “abused” for years. I was coerced to accept and perform sex acts, and then raped repeatedly, and I call that - “assault”.

CALL IT ASSAULT!

Linda Gifford

I was NOT sexually groomed and “abused” for years. I was coerced to accept and perform sex acts, and then raped repeatedly, and I call that - “assault”.

forgiveness is overrated

forgiveness is overrated

Linda Gifford

“I was given no chance to explore love and intimacy; to choose to share my body with a chosen one; to have a choice the first time I let another...

forgiveness is overrated

Linda Gifford

“I was given no chance to explore love and intimacy; to choose to share my body with a chosen one; to have a choice the first time I let another...