594RosennaBakariChildhood SexualAbuse
Rosenna Bakari is a scholar, motivational speaker, and social advocate. She earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Northern Colorado in 2000. She earned her Master’s degree in Counseling from the State University of New York and her undergraduate degree in psychology from Cornell University.
Dr. Bakari has authored four books related to women’s issues. She published her first book in 1994 on Black women’s self-esteem. In 2016 she published two titles, a daily reader for survivors of childhood sexual abuse, titled “Tree Leaves”, and a book titled “Original Sin”, which reinterprets the infamous story through a feminist lens that confronts rape culture and patriarchy. Her fourth book is her memoir about living in silence as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse.
Dr. Bakari is also the founder and executive director of Talking Trees, an empowerment organization for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. She is also launching a new “We2” movement to bring survivor and listeners together to break the silence of sexual abuse.
In addition to her organization work, she hosts a monthly open mic to share her transformational poetry and offer a platform for community members to share their passion and pain.
She is the author of the 2018 book, “Too Much Love Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Silence of Childhood Sexual Abuse.” The book has been described as a UV light that reveals the dreadful stain of silence – presenting irrefutable evidence that harm has been done in spite of the squeaky-clean surface. When the systems on which Rosenna relied failed her, she found her way through the darkness using unconventional sources such as poetry and martial arts. She weaved through bitterness and anger in a world that seemed hell-bent on breaking the spirit and believes others can too because trauma should not have the final word
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Rosenna and I overlapped attendance at Cornell for one year and her dorm was close to mine. I’m a little older than her. She’s right, no one spoke of sexual abuse at that time. I lived at a dorm that was for tree huggers, so we were all into recycling and conserving resources.
Thanks for allowing her to read her poem.
It’s amazing how long she buried the belief that something was wrong with her. It’s too bad that victims get the idea that there is something wrong with them. If I get punched I don’t think that, if I get stabbed with a knife, I don’t think that. Because of the shame our society has about sexuality, victims of sexual violence take on the idea there is, from then on, something wrong with them. Damn!!
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Rich Featherly
I consistently listen to your pod, and often feel expanded by it professionally and personally. I’m an LMHC with an addiction background, and I specialize in treating the affected family system and codependency. I lead a codependency group for adults, so much of my work and interest is in healing codependency that occurs from any childhood trauma and dysfunction.
I found the sexual abuse pod so, so valuable.
In my work I more often than not hear about sexual abuse and it’s devastating effects, I will be sure to point them in her direction for resources of inspiration.