CONTENT/TRIGGER WARNING: Child sexual abuse, survivor Native man sitting in front of a wood panel backdrop. He has dark hair with a middle-hair-part that is pulled back. He is wearing two hanging white earnings. Has a black t-shirt on with the word Warrior showing. CONTENT/TRIGGER WARNING: Child sexual abuse, survivor My name is Greg Grey Cloud I am the co-founder of Wica Agli Native men against domestic and sexual violence I’m 28 I’m Lakota and Dakota aka Native American I’m a cis male I live in Dakota and Lakota nations in South Dakota I’m a brother. I'm a son and I’m a relative …and I’m a survivor of child sexual abuse ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkSL2FJrTms

[Content Warning- sexuality, sexual violence, child sexual abuse] Ignacio - (description) Black/Brown/Red tattooed genderqueer person wearing glasses, off-the shoulder wine colored knitted top and long silver neckless. Sitting in front of a brown and silver lamp, grey curtains and wood panel wall, speaking to audience/camera. When I learned about sex, umm, I actually didn’t learn about sex. I think the kind of sexual misinformation that I got was through my sexual abuse as a child around the ages above 7, 8, 9. SO I didn’t have any kind of concrete real information about sex or sexuality or any of it. This came later on in life when I was, um, through trial and error, experimentation, doing a lot of wrong things, and then educating myself later on, because it was necessary for my survival and my mental health. Maisha- (description) Black femme woman with up-do-wrapped locs, wearing a silver heart neckless, multi-colored top and long earnings. Sitting in front of a brown and silver lamp, grey curtains and wood panel wall, speaking to audience/camera. When I learned about sex, it was actually kind of hard to pinpoint. Um, I do remember my mother giving me a book to read that had different people’s different body parts, and different thing around sexuality and your period and things like that. I think it was called “What is Happening to Me.” But other than that, my first experience was with my incest abuser and perpetrator. Mia- (description) Korean woman with long dark hair and dark rimmed glasses, sitting in front of a white concrete wall with hanging x-mass lights above, speaking to audience/camera. Um, I can’t pinpoint the first time, the first exact time, I learned about sex. I think for a lot of my childhood I was very disassociated from things because of so much trauma, so it’s hard to even remember what were some of the first times. I know that my friends introduced me to like ideas and concepts around sex. And that was like, you know, they would show me things or tell me things but I never remember being as present really, to like take it in like that. It just seemed like something that they were talking about, it didn’t seem like, I don’t remember connecting like “that is sex and sex is this thing.” Yeah, so, and then you know all the, like people would be talking about “good touch, bad touch”, people would be talking about “safe sex” things, but I don’t remember it really sinking in. Yeah. Lady D- (description) Black woman with long wine-colord nails, salt and pepper locs, wearing a sleeveless blue/grey/white top with yellow trimming. Wearing a silver ring, silver bracelets, one silver neckless and one black neckless sitting in front of a brown and silver lamp, grey curtains and wood panel wa ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLxLGR1UvAU

Black woman with long earnings, a white sleeveless blouse, and wearing her locs tied up, sitting in front of a wood panel backdrop speaking into camera/to audience. CONTENT/TRIGGER WARNING: Child sexual abuse, rape, IPV, survivor I am Black and a woman Born in the Bronx Spent my entire adult life in Baltimore I live in California now I’m normally much more articulate but this is the truth and the realness of the moment My name is Shameeka Dream Smalling I’m 35 Black A Jamaican living in America Educator Performance and healing artist Hetero-flexible I am This is …a healing process …My work and I am a survivor of child sexual abuse, rape and intimate partner violence #Outing CSA #HEAL2End #Survivor ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdJLqwTfZI

Support this channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/heal2end In our “Sow and Grow” series, you get to meet the very people who are the reason we can do this life-changing work. During this interview JD Davids, strategist, shares that his queerness lights him up everyday and why it is so important to fund projects that are affirming. Lastly, he explains what healing means to him. These short interviews are here to inspire you and your friends to join our vibrant donor community at heal2end.org/donate. This video is sponsored by The HEAL Project (THP), an initiative to prevent and end childhood sexual abuse (CSA) through healing the wounds of sexual oppression and embracing sexual liberation: http://www.heal2end.org Give to The HEAL Project at https://heal2end.org/donate ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZxWzgF6BIQ