Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse, AK Press | 2019
Edited by Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Foreword by Darnell L. Moore
WINNER of the 2020 Lambda Literary Award (Lammy) for Best LGBTQ Anthology
Available for purchase: AK Press, BOOKSHOP, AMAZON, and Barnes and Noble
love WITH accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse is a Lambda Literary Award–winning anthology edited by Aishah Shahidah Simmons. The collection brings together diasporic Black survivors, advocates, and community members to explore child sexual abuse, healing, and accountability.
Through transformative storytelling, the anthology examines how we can disrupt and end child sexual abuse without relying on policing and prisons, while naming the harm caused by silence, denial, and lack of accountability within families and communities.
love WITH accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse is a Lambda Literary Award–winning anthology edited by Aishah Shahidah Simmons. The collection brings together diasporic Black survivors, advocates, and community members to explore child sexual abuse, healing, and accountability.
Through transformative storytelling, the anthology examines how we can disrupt and end child sexual abuse without relying on policing and prisons, while naming the harm caused by silence, denial, and lack of accountability within families and communities. This collection explores how to disrupt the inhumane epidemic of child sexual abuse, humanely.
Contributor roll call: Liz S. Alexander, Qui Dorian Alexander, Esther Armah, Kenyette Tisha Barnes, Luz Marquez-Benbow, Edxie Betts, Sevonna Brown, Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis, Rosa Cabrera, Nicole “Kqueen” Denson, Dr. Worokya Duncan, CeCelia Falls, Zoë Flowers, Kim Gaubault, Alicia Sanchez Gill, Dr. Kai M. Green, Adenike A. Harris and Peter J. Harris, Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Indira Henard, Monika Johnson-Hostler, Dr. Sikivu Hutchinson, Tracy Ivy, Tanisha Esperanza Jarvis, e nina jay, Cyreé Jarelle Johnson, Kalimah Johnson, Najma Johnson, Ferentz Lafargue, Ph.D., Tonya Lovelace, Thea Matthews, Darnell L. Moore, Dr. Danielle R. Moss, Chevara Orrin, Mel Anthony Phillips, Jey’nce Mizrahi Poindexter, Ignacio G Hutía Xeiti Rivera, Lynn Roberts, Ph.D., Loretta J. Ross, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Dr. Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Farah Tanis, Tashmica Torok, and Tracy D. Wright