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Dear Sister,It wasn't your fault; it was never your fault. You did nothing wrong. Hold this tight to your heart: it wasn't your fault.At night when you lay there and your mind fills with images and you wonder if only, if you had . . . if you hadn't . . . . Remember: it wasn't your fault.In Oakland, California on March 24, 2015 a fire destroyed the AK Press warehouse along with several other businesses. Please consider visiting the AK Press website to learn more about the fundraiser to help them and their neighbors.Dear Sister shares the lessons, memories, and vision of over fifty artists, activists, mothers, writers, and students who share their stories of survival or what it means to be an advocate and ally to survivors. Written in an epistolary format, this multi-generational, multi-ethnic collection of letters and essays is a moving journey into the hearts and minds of the survivors of rape, incest, and other forms of sexual violence, written directly to and for other survivors.
About the Author
Lisa Factora-Borchers is a Filipina American writer, poet, and editor of Dear Sister: Letters from Survivors of Sexual Violence. Lisa is a long time contributor and editor with feminist publication make/shift magazine and has also worked as a nonfiction editor with Literary Mama. Her work can also be found in online publications such as Refinery 29, In The Fray, TruthOut, The Feminist Wire, and Bitch magazines. Her work in spirituality, racism, and sexual violence has been cited in academic texts, poetry anthologized in Verses Against Haiyan: A Storm of Filipino Poets, and her newest prose is anthologized in forthcoming Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines (PM Press) .
Lisa received a Bachelors degree in English from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio and a joint masters degree in Counseling Psychology and Pastoral Ministry from Boston College. Her workshops, retreats, and forums centralize on feminism, spirituality, transformative listening, and sustainable, everyday activism.
Lisa is currently studying in the MFA creative writing program at Columbia University. She lives in New York City with her life partner and their two children.
