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Lynn Beisner

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People With Mental Health Emergencies Deserve So Much More Than What Our Health-Care System Has to Offer

Sep 15, 9:06am

Too often, reaching out for help can mean being handed off to people who have absolutely no training in mental health care and who have deep prejudices against those with mental illnesses.

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Here Are All the ‘Privileges’ I’ve Experienced as a Survivor of Sexual Assault

Jun 10, 12:02pm

George Will is right. Throughout my life, my status as "survivor" has afforded me any number of privileges. For instance, the surgery that I needed a couple of years ago to fix the long-term consequences of the assault on my body was truly a privilege—it gave me the status of being temporarily unemployable.

Commentary Violence

Dear Conservative Christian Leaders: Why Are You Silent About Rape?

Mar 24, 9:14pm

I am writing because conservative Christian leaders have been stunningly and tellingly silent on one of the most pressing moral and social issues we face today: rape.