Okay so here is the beginning of the story ( Read more... )

Advisory: Following a period of escalating horrific behavior over the past month, Judah Sher (sindrian) raped me Wednesday night and physically assaulted me this morning. Police reports have been filed and investigation is ongoing. I have been granted a three-month restraining order against him so, uh, please do not invite us to the same parties. More ( Read more... )

TRIGGER WARNING FOR THIS WHOLE POST. I'm trying to walk the line between trigger warning and cut-tagging, because cut-tagging things means no one reads them ( Read more... )

TRIGGER WARNING.

Four teenage boys in Tampa, Florida, were charged as adults Wednesday on allegations of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy ( Read more... )

I am a member of The Boston Area Rape Crisis Center's Survivor Speakers Bureau. What does this mean? It means that, staring this fall, I'll be doing regular public speaking events in which I tell the story of my rape and recovery ( Read more... )

Because I'm going to the info session about volunteering for the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center on Monday. Because my own anniversary is coming up - I may actually be in volunteer training on said anniversary.

Because I don't need a reason. Because maybe you need these links. Or your sister. Or your friend. (And--- I might do a ritual again this ( Read more... )

In my entry about the rape, I don't touch much upon the rape kit - the taking of evidence. I don't touch much on the emotional impact of any of it. But in that post, I focus mostly on the act itself.

What I wrote about it is under the cut, and I'm going to write more about it, also under the cut.

( So don't click this if it would trigger you. )

(What has gone before...)

I went back to Vegas last month.

When I say that, I feel like Christian in Moulin Rouge - "I first arrived in Paris one year ago." And then the zippy time-going-in-reverse thing ( Read more... )

This sounds distant for a reason... I was writing it to be modified for the character in my NaNoWriMo, when I was trying to get to catharsis. I cannot get too close to the actual feelings. I cannot turn off the intellectual distance, because to do so is to shatter ( Read more... )