To Anyone Who Blames Sexual Assault On What Someone Was Wearing
Trigger warning: Sexual assault “She was asking for it.” “She shouldn’t have worn that.” “Well, but why was she wearing that if not for a man?” I hear you. Let me try to explain it like this to you,...
View ArticleLearning How To Run
Trigger warning: Sexual assault and sexual harassment Maybe it was your Drivers Ed teacher’s hand on your leg when he wanted you to accelerate. Or the one time he put his finger in the back of your...
View ArticleWhen You Voted For Him, You Voted Against Me
Trigger Warning: The following article describes sexual assault and rape and may be upsetting to some readers. 2020 has been the year of non-experts speaking out about topics and situations they’ve...
View ArticleChewing Gum
Trigger warning: Sexual assault In a private Christian school, you do not get sex ed. You get a chapel where the speaker holds up a stick of gum and asks, Who wants it? Everyone does, of course. Gum is...
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35 Chilling Stories Of Women Who ‘Dated’ Older Men As Teens And How They...
I wasn’t allowed to say no “My first boyfriend was 22 years old! I was probably 13-14 something. He was very controlling, the kind that tells me I’m not allowed to say “no” if he asks anything. He used...
View ArticleHow Will I Ever Love Again After Being Sexually Assaulted?
Trigger warning: Sexual assault After my assault, I felt lonely, hopeless, and like “damaged goods.” I remember ringing my mom for months on end and saying how I felt dirty and that when everyone...
View ArticleAn Open Letter To The Broken-Hearted People Who Are Still Learning How To Heal
Trigger warning: Abuse, sexual assault I’m sorry. What I have to tell you is unfair in so many ways but undeniably true. Sometimes we like to forget that we’re human; we have faults. We’re so fragile...
View ArticleThe Dysfunction is No Longer Mine
Trigger warning: sexual assault and emotional abuse “I’ve handed his dysfunction back to him.” FKA Twigs spoke these powerful words in an interview condemning her abuser, Shia LaBeouf. As I watched her...
View ArticleTo The Boy Who Broke Me
Trigger warning: sexual assault and suicidal ideation It was the summer before my senior year of high school and an unusually cool night for the month of June. My best friend graduated a few weeks...
View ArticleThe Scariest Part Of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’ Happened Off Screen
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was an iconic British horror director whose influence on the horror genre is second only to a small handful of even bigger icons like Stephen King and Wes Craven. Hitchcock...
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