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Sexual Assault
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Even if everyone knows her story, no one really knows how she feels. It pours out now: her rage, her shame, her guilt-- it still lingers. But with the telling comes a sense of empowerment. She has no culpability in the Brijee matter. None, other than being naive and being a woman. During the inquiry she had tapped into the righteousness that was her due; she slapped down the least suggestion that she might be a fault. She had learned a lesson: to show weakness, to be tearful or shattered didn't
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― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
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The stigma around rape and survival is already profound, so when it's committed by someone else in the queer community, the stigma is compounded by queer phobia and various myths like 'women can't rape women'. If you add the stigma of rape to the stigma of being queer, the reality becomes a cruel and silencing world that invalidates you from every angle.
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― The Way We Survive: Notes on Rape Culture
― The Way We Survive: Notes on Rape Culture
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This is a space for supporters of LaFASA (the Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault,) as w…more
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Mental Illness. Eating Disorders. Sexual Assault. Domestic Violence.
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