Ecumene is a term used by geographers to mean inhabited land. It is seen as "the land where people have made their permanent home, and to all work areas that are considered occupied and used for agricultural or any other economic purpose." The Ecumene essays by Angel Brynner are a psychological exposition on what cumene can mean for an adult survivor of abuse: the parameters of life within which they often find themselves trapped until they make clean breaks from those that are at the root of said abuse. Going from surviving to thriving is a pilgrimage, one that many die upon attempting without the right arsenals and maps. this collection of essays is a mapmakers log having made their way from hell on earth to the promised land .so that the real world no longer boxes them in the way it once did. Victims of abuse are often treated as solicitors of it, and 9 times out of ten bear all the vitriol that the abuser actually deserves in our society. The only thing that topples that is anarchy.

as in true community in lieu of traditional systems. The Abuse becomes an A on the victim's chest, a permanent history the world demands the victim carry with them for the rest of their lives due to breaking the vows of silence forced upon them by the abusers and dragging things out into the light. The intent of Ecumene is to not just eradicate that 'permanent history' hemming the survivor in. it is to show them the tools that will cut that infected wound open and clear it out so that they & only they can finally get on with the work of defining what THEY want their permanent home to be going forward in this wild world. We are turning that fucking encroached-upon "A" on its head, flipping the rig upside down to set the captives free by making mapmakers out of everyone Ecumene reaches. Some villages need to be burned to the ground.