NOTE: This post differs from DVSN’s normal blog content in several ways. It is an extensive exploration of both professional accomplishments and quite personal details in the life of DVSN’s Executive Director, Jacquelin Apsler, who only agreed to this profile if it...
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Sexual assault is a particularly violating and traumatizing form of abuse. While sexual assault can take many forms, the term has come to be almost synonymous in some contexts with rape. While the common cultural image of rape...
There are numerous types of abuse from physical and verbal to emotional, spiritual, financial, and technological. While abusers use a variety of tactics to exert power in these different spheres, many of these tactics boil down to the same thing: coercive control....
2021 is the 20th anniversary of Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). SAAM is about awareness and prevention of sexual assault, harassment, and abuse. Sexual assault is any sexual activity when consent is not obtained or freely given. It spans a gamut of behavior...
