rape Archives - Page 3 of 5

Review

‘Promising Young Woman’ assault survivor takes revenge

Julia Park Tracey 0

(Spoilers!) Who is the promising young woman of the film’s title? Is it Cassie? Is it Nina? Is it the dean’s daughter? Is it Madison?...

Dark-haired woman facing ocean on a gray day, seen from behind, for Survivor Lit, a literary magazine for sexual assault survivors.

Poetry

Atlantis

Julia Park Tracey 0

I made the mistake of telling my therapist about the molestations, the assault, the rapes, and she had the audacity to ask me how I feel, and...

Poetry

#MeToo

Julia Park Tracey 0

what I mean is, I said no to my ex for the first time. I said no. I said no. I said no fucking way you stupid piece...

blue butterfly on green leaf photo by Vincent Van Zalinge

Essays

Treading

Rebecca Burke 0

I could feel pieces of myself breaking.

Essays

Once more, but quieter

Michaela Mayer 0

So many survivors doubt their own experiences.

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Poetry

Wooden church pews

Jan Mason 0

The church is empty except Daddy and me

Poetry

Lost and found

Jan Mason 0

Where to find peace in the everyday chaos?

Fiction

For forever

Corinne O'Shaughnessy 1

Teo leaves the door on the street unlocked so he doesn’t have to go up and down the steps of his apartment over the Shirley Uniform Shops to let his piano students in.

silhouette of a girl representing shame photo by Kevin Jesus Horacio

Poetry

Don’t you dare tell me he’s a good man

Linda M. Crate 0

I get to hear my family talk about how the man who tried to rape me as a child and taunted me about it in college is a good man.

Essays

R is for rape

Dawn J. Post 0

Even in my own mind I cannot say it. It remains the “R” word or, euphemistically, “the incident.” I know, intellectually, that the R stands for “rape,” but I can’t say it.