Ethnic Identity and Educational Outcomes in African American College Students

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Fighting or Conforming? Unitarian Opinion on Women and Culture

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Nonverbal Presentation in a Mediation Session

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Margaret Fuller and the New York Christian Inquirer

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Burying America's Malls: Cyclical Capital, Commodity, and Creative Destruction

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Preferences and Prejudice: Does Empathy Affect Preferences for Microaggression Training?

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“Unenthusiastic” Proselytization: The Unitarian Effort to Merge National Identity and Religion

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The New York Christian Inquirer on Slavery: Progressive and Progressing Viewpoints?

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Building an African Identity through Magical Realism: Cyclicality in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road

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We Still Have Mutual Friends

The project We Still Have Mutual Friends is a qualitative interview study into women’s experiences with sexualviolence. Through the interview process, mostly face-to-face recorded interviews, I have evaluated multiplefacets of sexual abuse/marginalization and their consequences on survivors. In total, I interviewed thirty-twowomen about their familial background, their adolescence, and depending on their age, their life experienceswith their sexuality. Some of the facets I have focused on are the disparity between a subject’s definition andtheir experience of sexual assault. I have also evaluated their self-awareness of this disparity, and why they thinkit occurs. I tried as much as I could, to ask questions in an order/way that did not create preferential answering.Because these interviews followed a standard oral history format of open-ended questions with follow-ups basedon the interviewee’s answers, instances of leading answers were possible. Seventeen out of thirty-two womenwere white, with the next largest group being Hispanic, and then Black. With ages ranging from eighteen upto fifty-eight, several generational voices are accounted for. While there were certain trends found within typesof assault, and who it was (trends not entirely new to us), one thing I discovered is a similar background everyperson shared with their family. All the women had at some point experienced some sort of “body policing.” Ihope this project has provided a more holistic view into the world of sexual violence that women face.