The Trauma Papers with Jazmine Bell

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What happens to a child when the adult doesn’t use a safe word?

What happens to a child when the adult doesn’t use a safe word?

My response to the Neil Gaiman article.

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Jan 16, 2025
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That Vulture article about Neil Gaiman came out on January 13, 2025. I have been triggered on so many levels ever since, that I decided to do some writing about it. I will also speak to my response to the article and why I just emailed the child protection services in the States about Ash.

https://www.vulture.com/article/neil-gaiman-allegations-controversy-amanda-palmer-sandman-madoc.htm

Above is a link to the article (not paywalled, have done this because it is too important and I want everyone to read it).

First off here are the screenshots that involve the child of Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman;

Screenshots taken from the Vulture article called There Is No Safe Word How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.

The article was written by Lila Shapiro, a features writer for New York Magazine.

The screenshots of what happened involving the child are what is the most distressing of all of this. Thanks to the #metoo movement more stories about sexual abuse can be told. Even mine was published in 2020 in a New Zealand newspaper by a journalist named Alison Mau. The world changed as we all started to be disgusted with what it means to be abused by people in positions of power.

Now we need to talk about the children involved.

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