Category: Trigger Warning
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Rapist in Chief
I don’t care what your politics are, and I don’t care how you feel about Hillary Clinton. You need to know what you did to me personally. From the Horse’s Mouth He admitted to assaulting women. We have it on tape. Simply hearing the news talk about all of that aroused this same feeling I…
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Yes, Your Pain is Real Too
I don’t want to diminish the pain our veterans have suffered. I’m just not letting them silence my story anymore. Why didn’t more women come forward sooner? Because we’re rarely given the space to tell our stories. So come at me bro. I’m not standing down this time.
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Happy Veterans Day
Don’t forget about the mental illness we’ve induced in our people to ensure cheap oil prices 🙂 Never forget about PTSD. Never forget that as bad as it is we’ve willfully inflicted this upon our brave soldiers and sailors and pilots and the like, we’ve inflicted the illness at a much higher rate on those…
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On Trauma
You see, it’s been years. But I still can’t tell this story without my stomach roiling up to my mouth. I still can’t think about anything that happened that day without seeing a penis in my face again. I flinch to the left, to run from the phantom penis pressing itself towards the right side…
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Good Girl/Bad Girl
I’m not a girl. But what do you see when you look at me? A girl. I Am Not What I Seem I am not constrained by your narrative, have never been. I tried to fit it though. Tried hard and long and drove myself into the ground over it. I am not a good…
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My Rapist Doesn’t Know He’s a Rapist
And Other Horror Stories Rarely does a man make the conscious choice to sexually assault a woman. He simply doesn’t realize what the effect of his actions really is. My Story (Friendly Reminder: I’m telling this so that I don’t explode, NOT for anybody else) I said no. Multiple times. I pulled my shorts back…
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Asking the Wrong Questions
“Why didn’t they come forward sooner?” Wrong question. Try again. The real question here is, why didn’t we believe the women who came forward. The follow-up question is, how could we expect more women to come forward after they saw what happened to their fellow survivors?
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I Don’t Owe You Anything
I’ve acted all my life as if I do, but I don’t. So don’t read this and think that it is your right to know any of this. Read this and know that these are the stories that I tell so that I don’t explode. Read this and know that there is a good goddamn…