by Robert Maniscalco | Nov 24, 2019 | CSA Advocacy, Motivational, Random Favorites, Uncategorized, World View
TRIGGER ALERT – Mature content. Light This video (below) may be challenging for those recovering from Child Sexual Abuse. That is the intention. It is a poem, created from the perspective of the abuser. It was intended as a therapeutic exercise in empathy, by...
by Robert Maniscalco | Oct 17, 2019 | CSA Advocacy, Random Favorites, Uncategorized, World View
Why Does the biggest issue of our time not get discussed in national politics? Sexual violence pervades every system in our society from the highest governmental institutions to our own homes. It is in our blood. I’d go so far as to say it is the American way:...
by Robert Maniscalco | Oct 10, 2019 | Random Favorites, Uncategorized
Republicans are enthusiastically voting to make our country unsafe, under insured, uneducated, underpaid, underfed, uninformed, unable to vote. Why? Because at the end of the day they believe themselves immune from such misfortunes. Bad things only happen to those who...
by Robert Maniscalco | Sep 19, 2019 | CSA Advocacy, Motivational, Random Favorites, Uncategorized, World View
For 1 in 16 US women, first sexual intercourse experience was rape, study says. As a survivor, I find this is extremely troubling, to be sure. But I also wish they had gathered statistics on male CSA. My first sexual experience was being raped by a trusted family...
by Robert Maniscalco | Sep 17, 2019 | Motivational, Random Favorites, Uncategorized, World View
I am a Christian, the father of two Jewish children and I am active in their synagogue. I’m also an artist, theatrician, writer and amateur mathematician. So let’s do some math around the Holocaust. Have you ever wondered why there are hundreds of churches for...
by Robert Maniscalco | Aug 26, 2019 | Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, Random Favorites, Uncategorized
This past weekend, I enjoyed some VIP visitors from New Orleans, my old stomping grounds back in the mid 1990s. I had done a number of judicial portraits during my residence there but had fallen off the radar, due to my lack of proximity and the passage of time....
