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Thank you

Kirsten Palladino 0
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Essays

The confession

Carmel de Bertaut 0
I felt nothing when he died.  
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Essays

Assault

Barbie Beaton 1
A storm inside the mind is not so different from a wildfire.
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Poetry

The acknowledgement

Samari Zysk 0
I’m trying to be gentle with myself, but what if I never believe my body when it tells me what happened?
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Finding pleasure after violation

Articles Laura Zam 0
Those who’ve been victimized need to demand genital joy as a birthright.
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Healing the past with healthy boundaries in the present

Featured Micah Stover 0
Internalized and unresolved shame from one generation becomes the burden of the next.
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Stop is a complete sentence

Featured Alyson Shelton 0
I’m a baby. The monster comes to life here, before I have words. Before I can say stop. If I could, I would scream the word until I’m hoarse.
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The color yellow is a lie

Charlotte Kaufman 2
I am doing everything by the book but my book isn’t the same as everyone else’s.
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I wanted to be your wall

Rebecca Evans 0
Do you remember the early years when I pushed my bed between yours and our bedroom door, between Daddy and you, night after night?
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Essays

The sheets

Sophia Shalmiyev 0
I experienced my childhood rape as a death.
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Essays

The confession

Carmel de Bertaut 0
I felt nothing when he died.  
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Essays

Assault

Essays Barbie Beaton 1
A storm inside the mind is not so different from a wildfire.
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How to become a feminist horror writer

Articles Lindsay Merbaum 0
It’s the early 90’s. You watch “Gremlins” at a sleepover...
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A good sport

Articles Karen Lethlean 0
Don’t mean to brag, but I am a triathlete of...
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Tracing

Articles Sophia Safdieh 0
“Are you ready to talk about it?” my therapist asks...
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Books

Essays in search of identity after cult, abuse

Articles Jennifer Fischer 0
Part memoir, part essay collection, Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing is a fearless book.
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‘No reason for shame’: a survivor speaks up

Articles Julia Park Tracey 1
Rachel Thompson has, over the years, thought of herself as a survivor more than a victim. “I think I’ve always had that within me [being a survivor]. I literally had to find a way to cope constantly, because I had to.”
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Award-winning writer Michelle Bowdler on her new book ‘Is Rape a Crime?,’ a testament to her own story as well as an indictment of...

Articles Kirsten Palladino 0
In her new book, a longlist contender for this year’s National Book Award in nonfiction, Michelle Bowdler explains how a violent home invasion and sexual assault led her to investigate the lack of investigation into sex crimes.
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If the girl thinks love is here every day!, an excerpt from ‘If the Girl Never Learns’

Books Sue William Silverman 0
She'd translate her body back into its own language, if only she could.
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Poetry

To the fathers who do not abuse their daughters

Poetry Leslie Timmins 2
On my street I am witness to the young men who...
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Revenge of the soul thief

Poetry Nina Ward 0
You murdered my son, Abuser. Though breath still trickles out closed lips, he...
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Eight of Cups

Poetry Hikari Miya 0
I keep seeing him, in gardenia scented dreams. he’s trying to...
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Seven of Swords

Poetry Hikari Miya 0
that smiling wink when he was drunk on soju, the flush of...
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Poetry

The acknowledgement

Samari Zysk 0
I’m trying to be gentle with myself, but what if I never believe my body when it tells me what happened?
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