#survivorloveletter

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“Dear Survivor, I believe you. We believe you. Even if you never utter a word of your story, we carry it with you. We believe you.” #SurvivorLoveLetter by @chaninicholas with art by woc artist @celestialterrestrial 💌 @survivor.love.letter was founded by @taniikeda as a way to share messages of self-love and to celebrate survivors of sexual assault. We want to remind every survivor that not only are you believed, not only are you supported; you are loved. [Description: Portrait of a queer femme with a murmuration of pink birds flying into the sky of her dark hair. Purple palm leaves float in the background. White hand writing around a blue border reads “Dear survivor, even if you never utter a word of your story we carry it with you. We believe you.” #SurvivorLoveLetter] Write your own letter to a survivor of sexual assault this April during Sexual Assault Awareness Month and use our hashtag #SurvivorLoveLetter 🌸🌈💜 #SAAM #believesurvivors #chaninicholas #metoo

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Dear Disabled Child Survivor, you will make it out of this. we will soar together in all our crip magnificence and gift eachother what we never had.”] Mia Mingus works toward disability justice. She is a part of @transformativejustice (a collective working towards building transformative justice responses to child sexual abuse) and says this about her love letter: “this is the love letter i wish i had had when i was younger. to know that i would make it out one day and to know that other queer disabled child of color (adoptee) survivors made it out too.”

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Bamby Salcedo is a nationally recognized Latina trans activist & president of @translatinacoalition . @beyon.wren.moor is a cree/Ukrainian trans woman artist, musician, tattoo artist living in Pocumtuck (western mass). download our posters for free at survivorloveletter.com [Description: a silhouette of a trans Latinx woman with constellations across her face. Roses grow from her chest. Handwriting says: “Dear Trans Sibling Survivor, with tears, determination, heart and courage, you can overcome. Only you can give the gift of life to yourself.“ ]

Here is an excerpt from Bamby’s letter (Trigger Warning: rape/sexual assault) : “I hope that you also see and understand that you are a precious being, you are perfect just the way you are. You have been created to exist in this world and to live your life to the fullest of your potential despite the horrible experiences that you may have encounter when you were sexually assaulted. Please do not let any of your horrible experiences take you away from enjoying the life that you have been given because it is your life for you to live. Not to live it with pain and sorrow. I understand it’s a process, but please know that are so many people like you, like me, like us, who are encouraging each other to know and understand that we do not have to be slaves of the past. Our horrible experiences with sexual abuse and sexual assault should not dictate how we could live our lives. With determination, tears, heart and courage, we can overcome. I invite you to give the gift of life to yourself and liberate yourself from those chains that keeps us sick in our minds, in our hearts and in our soul. Please find the peace and healing that you deserve, because only you can give the gift of life to yourself. May our creator give you the strength to find the cure to the liberation of your soul.” — Bamby Salcedo

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Dear Survivor, even when there is no one else, there is always you, the wind, the sun to hold you forever. #SurvivorLoveLetter by 💌 @shesanargonaut a queer indigenous survivor and artist.

Join us tomorrow 9am PST as we flood the internet with love letters for survivors of sexual assault using the hashtag #SurvivorLoveLetter on twitter, fb, and instagram.

I hold you until the seed of your body blooms into a volcano. There will be days you will feel so alone & so split from any blood family & no amount of external achievement can overpower the empty. close your eyes. imagine a hummingbird soaring...

I hold you until the seed of your body blooms into a volcano. There will be days you will feel so alone & so split from any blood family & no amount of external achievement can overpower the empty. close your eyes. imagine a hummingbird soaring around each wound. Imagine it’s wings nourishing each wound until they glow. Call upon chosen family, survivors, therapy animals, mentors, ancestors, and their spirits will come flocking by the hundreds. Their spirits fold around your body & carry you down a river. At the end of the river, there is love. #SurvivorLoveLetter artwork by @layqanunayawar & @jessxsnow

Dear Survivor, You will walk through the fire, and you will know the truth of it. You may fall into a never-ending pit of darkness, not knowing when you will touch bottom, And when you finally do, you will stand there, feet firmly on the ground. At...

Dear Survivor,
You will walk through the fire, and you will know the truth of it.
You may fall into a never-ending pit of darkness, not knowing when you will touch bottom,
And when you finally do, you will stand there, feet firmly on the ground.
At first, this darkness will be terrifying. It is grief, pain, shame, rage. It is all your demons and it feels like suffocation,
And you will stand there in utter blackness,
And you will breathe,
And you will examine the shadow enveloping you
And you will get to know it’s shape, it’s sound, And after a while, you will become less afraid of it.
Because you’re still breathing.
Few people have stood in that place and made friends with their shadow.

Sister Survivor, I am with you always. You are stronger than you can even fathom. So even in the darkest moments, just know that there will be a light that emanates from deep within your heart, and that light is called compassion. You are a super-hero and I am proud to know you. #survivorloveletter artwork by @jessxsnow