“One in four girls will experience sexual abuse by the time she is sixteen, and 48 percent of all rapes involve a young woman under the age of eighteen. It’s not surprising then, that in a society where sexual abuse of young women is rampant, many women never share their stories. They remain hidden and invisible.” AbuseTraumaSexual AbuseRapeRape CultureVictimsTraumatic ExperiencesSurvivors Of AbuseChild RapeChildhood Sexual AbuseSurvivorshipSilent PainSexual Abuse Of A ChildInvisible PeopleRape StatisticsHidden ShameHidden VictimsInvisible Girls Book:Invisible Girls: The Truth About Sexual Abuse Source: Invisible Girls: The Truth About Sexual Abuse
“When most folks think about the problems of growing up in the hood, they think about what it must feel like to be poor, or hungry, or to have your lights cut off. The struggle nobody talk about is what it feel like to be invisible, or to know in your heart the nobody cares. Mama didn’t want to be famous, she wanted to be seen.” PoorStruggleUnlovedExtreme PovertyInvisible PeopleThe Hood Book:Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat Source: Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
“You lot will always be my enemies. Do you remember the summer you bought Østgård and I was invited by the commander himself, Eckhoff? You were sorry for me. I was the poor boy you'd deprived of childhood memories... I stood watching you playing and enjoying yourselves as if the place belonged to you... You didn't see me. None of you saw me. It was as though I didn't exist. You were absorbed in each other. So I thought, well, OK, then I must be invisible. I'll show you what invisible people can do.” Invisible People Author:Jo Nesbo, Don Bartlett- translator