Blame the Victim

In the wake of the story surrounding Ray and Janay Rice, I have seen a myriad of emotions. I saw the video and was as shocked as anyone. When I saw that he’d been dropped by his team (albeit with a $25,000,000.00 pay off) and that his wife was defending him, I felt sad. It…

The Bipolar Biological

When I was just a tiny baby my mom took me, and whatever she could quickly throw in a bag and left my biological father. She was hurriedly leaving an intensely abusive relationship which included drug and alcohol abuse (from both of them), emotional abuse and severely violent physical abuse brought on, unbeknownst to her,…