**Trigger Warning** Topic: Rape My Story To start off, this story is posted under an anonymous tag because I have tried to speak about the incident. I thought that after months of suppressing the memory and ending up blank and drained with bouts of immense rage, that I should talk about it. It happened after the end of my four-year relationship …
Category: Speak Our Stories
Rape
**Trigger Warning** Topic: Rape My Story Just a few weeks ago, the woman that survived Brock Turner was added to the list of “well-known” rape survivors. The list included women and girls like Christine Blasey Ford and Asifa Bano. What I’ve noticed is that the names and faces change, but the stories and many of their details don’t. While I’m …
Child Sexual Abuse: Anonymous Submission
**Trigger Warning** Topic: Child Sexual Abuse My Story Playing on the radio, Summer Breeze by The Isley Brothers And I cried and cried. Suddenly, I was pulled back to being 15 years old – with the world all in front of me after an extremely rocky childhood. Pulled back through the time tunnel – to a time before I was sexually …
Consent: Yes or Maybe
As I sat in one of Uganda’s most prestigious universities with my multi-cultural co-workers trying to raise awareness about women’s reproductive health, I had the most cringe-worthy moment of my life. As we answered questions about how condoms and religion don’t agree with each other, a guy in his mid-20s told us we should talk to the women exclusively. When …
Child Sexual Abuse: Elona Washington
**Trigger Warning** Topic: Child Sexual Abuse My Story I was five years old when I was first sexually abused. My cousin would pick me up out of bed, carry me to the back room of the basement and rape me. We were living with our grandmother at the time but when I moved with my mom to Princeton, NJ, I believed …
Lindsey Ross: Why I Share My Story of Childhood Sexual Abuse by @trinanny93
*Trigger Warning* Topic: Child Sexual Abuse My Story #MeToo My father started molesting me when I was six. It began with him fondling me on his lap, or next to him on the couch. He progressed to coming into my bedroom at night and performing oral sex when everyone else in the house was sleeping. As I got older, he would hit …
Child Sexual Abuse and Kidnapping: Anonymous Submission
*Trigger Warning* Topic: Child Sexual Abuse and Kidnapping My Story I was born on January 8, 1980, in Readfield, Maine to J. and M. I was their first child and my sister was born in 1982. My parents never really got along very well and though they tried for my sister and me, they eventually separated in 1983, and their short …
This is My Rape Story: Daddy’s Little Girl
Topic: Rape/Child Sexual Abuse My Story My story has many appendages. It seems as if the initial offense rolled out a carpet full of cause and effect. As a child, I merely took the many hits, comforted myself, and gingerly stepped forth. Stepped forth into a world of villains. I began to learn the clues. A change in voice or demeanor. A deviant …
Jessica Eaton: Domestic, Sexual, Child Abuse and Rape
Topic: Domestic Abuse/CSA/Rape ***Trigger Warning for Extremely Graphic Content*** My Story The Sexual Abuse Started Early I was 11 when my parents divorced. It was messy. Dad was devastated and started drinking. Mum had been having an affair and had moved in with her new boyfriend. I don’t remember feeling vulnerable but I was clearly a sitting duck, in hindsight. The …
The Reason I Share My Rape Story – You are Not Alone
Topic: Rape *Trigger Warning* My Story Becoming a butterfly The egg of the butterfly is hidden away, under a leaf, until the caterpillar growing inside is ready to come out. You never know how life is going to turn out. My young life was full of potential, although I didn’t know it at the time. Things happen that change your …