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Healing is a process by which the traumatic experience is understood and integrated into one's life. The goal cannot be erasing memories and scars of trauma, rather being able to allow the traumatic experience and its consequences to exist without resistance and inform one's path forward with acceptance.
Sexual Liberation is the movement for liberating all bodies, sexualities, and relationships from the rigid moral, cultural, and legal structures that oppress individuals’ access to self-determination with agency and dignity.
[ID: A graphic with a black chalkboard background. On the left side, there is white text that reads, “Accountability, noun, related to: connection skills; transformative justice. Accountability is the proactive structuring of relationships so that when harmful mistakes happen there is a possibility for repair. heal2end.org/glossary, @heal2end.”]
[ID: A graphic with a black chalkboard background. On the left side, there is white text that reads, “Secksual Oppression, noun, related to: culture of sexual violence and sexual harm. Secksual Oppression is a system of marginalization upholding the rigid moral, cultural, and legals structures that dictate which types of bodies, secks, love, and relationships deserve recognition, legitimacy, and protection. heal2end.org/glossary, @heal2end.”]
[ID: A graphic with a black chalkboard background with a drawing of a paper airplane with a trail behind it on the left side. There is white text that reads, “Survivor, noun, related to: victim, culture of sexual violence. A survivor of secksual violence is anyone who is living with the experience of surviving The Culture of Sexual Violence. These experiences may be one-time or recurring, criminal or legal, macro or micro-aggressive, and threatening or actualized. Survivor is an umbrella term (some may use "victim" or "victim-survivor") for personal identification, community building, and institutional change. @heal2end, heal2end.org/glossary.”]
[ID: A graphic with a black chalkboard background with a drawing of a paper airplane with a trail behind it on the left side. There is white text that reads, “Loveism. Noun. related to: heteronormativity, gender binary. Loveism is a cultural system of expressions and behaviors that extends "love" beyond the subjective feeling that it is, and encourages using "love" as a tool for control, manipulation, and oppression. @heal2end, heal2end.org/glossary.”]
[ID: A graphic with a black chalkboard background. On the left side, there is white text that reads, “Culture Of Secksual Violence, noun, related to: secksual oppression; raype culture. The Culture of Secksual Violence refers to the normalization of physically and mentally harmful practices that lead to violent secksual actions and relations. These practices may or may not be illegal or criminal and are perpetuated at every level of society from interpersonal to institutional. heal2end.org/glossary, @heal2end.”]
[ID: A graphic with a black chalkboard background with a drawing of a paper airplane with a trail behind it on the left side. There is white text that reads, “Sexual Healing, noun, related to: culture of sexual violence, healing. Sexual Healing is the individual and collective process of healing from the Culture of Sexual Violence. For Sexual Healing, we imagine a different relationship with our bodies, gender, sex, sexuality, and partnerships of all kinds: one in which these aspects of our lives are not deemed inherently harmful or exploitative. Sexual Healing is not just for “survivors” in need of reclaiming their sexuality. Sexual Healing acknowledges that everyone – especially harm-doers and those who see themselves outside the victim/harm-doer dynamic – is impacted by the Culture of Sexual Violence and needs support and healing. @heal2end, heal2end.org/glossary.”]"
[ID: A graphic with a black chalkboard background with a drawing of a paper airplane with a trail behind it on the left side. There is white text that reads, “Adultism. Noun. related to: childism; misopedia. Adultism is a system of marginalization that overrides the agency and dignity of non-adults (e.g. children, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities). Adultism often upholds that adult feelings and experiences are more significant than that of non-adults. @heal2end, heal2end.org/glossary.”]
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