The #LoveWITHAccountability Forum was a ten-day online gathering originally published on The Feminist Wire in October 2016, created by Aishah Shahidah Simmons. It brought together diasporic over twenty-five Black survivors and advocates to break silence and explore child sexual abuse, healing, and accountability without solely relying on carceral justice.
This forum is both a continuation of earlier survivor-centered work and an early collective expression of what would become love WITH accountability®, including the 2020 Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology and subsequent gatherings.
Content Notice: The purpose of the #LoveWITHAccountability forum on The Feminist Wire and project is to prioritize child sexual abuse, healing, and justice in national dialogues and work on racial justice and gender-based violence. Several of the featured articles in this forum give an in-depth and, at times, graphic examination of rape, molestation, and other forms of sexual harm against diasporic Black children through the experiences and work of survivors and advocates. The articles also offer visions and strategies for how we can humanely move towards co-creating a world without violence. Please take care of yourself while reading.
