Can't Stop the Sunrise: Adventures in Healing, Confronting Corruption & the Journey to Institutional Reform

Can't Stop the Sunrise: Adventures in Healing, Confronting Corruption & the Journey to Institutional Reform

by Vanessa Osage
Can't Stop the Sunrise: Adventures in Healing, Confronting Corruption & the Journey to Institutional Reform

Can't Stop the Sunrise: Adventures in Healing, Confronting Corruption & the Journey to Institutional Reform

by Vanessa Osage

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Overview

The inspiring true story of one person speaking up over decades to reveal the truth that so many have tried to silence.

In 1980s New England, a young tomboy and naturalist grows among the hypocrisies of elitist culture. At 16, she witnesses the ills of corruption at close-range, when officials at Lawrence Academy, a boarding high school in Groton, Massachusetts, tell her they are going to keep a child molester on campus - and remove her to hide their secret.

Feel captivated by this "courageous and magnificent tale" (IndieReader) of her ongoing fight for gender equality and sexual health in a society on the brink of great social change. Enjoy a front seat ride across America and discover the surprising graces of believing in the goodness of humanity.

"When a book comes along that is not only timely, but... makes a reader want to get involved, it's cause for celebration, even in these troubled times. Vanessa Osage's Can't Stop the Sunrise is just such a book".

- IndieReader Five Star Review

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An illumination of activism, love, resilience, truth and repair, Can't Stop the Sunrise transforms collective outrage into hope for the brighter future that awaits.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781735608204
Publisher: Stone & Feather Press
Publication date: 10/07/2020
Pages: 416
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.03(d)

About the Author

Vanessa Osage is on a mission to leave this world better than she found it. She is a Certified Sexuality Educator, Consultant & Professional Coach. A two-time Nonprofit Founder, Vanessa Osage is President of The Amends Project, with a mission to "mend the loophole", and creator of The Justice CORPS Initiative. In 2017, she won the Kickass Single Mom Award for her work in sexuality education and youth rites of passage. Her essays have been featured in Circles on the Mountain, The Confluence Journal, Role Reboot & more. Can't Stop the Sunrise is her first book. Connect at vanessaosage.com, @vanessaosage

Table of Contents

Welcome

Introduction

Character Reference

Origins

Flying Toward a New Dawn

Roots

The Stories We Tell ~ In the Beginning

On Education

Dethroning ~ the Seat of Authority

Major Blessing ~ Friendship

The Door Through Which You Came, The First Door

Nearly Ran Away

Useful Skills ~ Not Caring What People Think

The Door Through Which You Came, The Second Door

Departures

On the Road

The Body Speaks, 2001

Ask & You Shall Receive, Part One

Trauma - The Live Wire of Survival

Useful Skills ~ Willing to Piss People Off

Already on My Way

The Speech

Waves of Reckoning

Belonging - A Home in One's Heart

Major Blessing ~ Chosen Coping Strategy

The Body Speaks, 2005

Arrivals

Encounters

Major Blessing ~ My First Love

Definitions

On the Whys & Recovery

Useful Skills ~ Watch What People Do

Tactics ~ D Words

Apocalypse ~ The Unveiling

Ask & You Shall Receive, Part Two

Intentions ~ The Amends Project

Integration, East & West

Quick, She's Coming!

Paradigms Collide

Diminishing ~ Stay Appropriate Size

Go On, Tell Me to Be Quiet Again!

The Feature Article

Still They Came ~ Waking Up

We Are With You

Falling & Rising

A Breather for Healing

Diversion ~ Stay Focused

Warriors of Presence

Discrediting & Defamation ~ Be Who You Are

The Double-Talk Shuffle

Destruction & Rebirth

Oversight ~ This is for Everyone

On the Culture of a Place

All Survivors Day

Returns

Open House

Balancing That Story

Their Report & Mine

Would Never = Hasn't Yet

Stories We Tell ~ Misleading Public Statements

Intersections ~ Internal Biases, External Consequences

Who Can We Tell?

Justice CORPS Video

On Apology

The Courage to Repair

I Decline Your Offer As It Stands

Parent Letter

Wikipedia

White Male Privilege: Q & A

Male Initiation ~ Humanizing

Useful Skills ~ Staying With It

Lucid Dream Road

Major Blessing ~

The Many Gratitudes

Ancient Parable

Taking Action ~ 2020 & Beyond

Choose Your Own Ending

Value & Appreciations

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