This article originally appeared in yes! magazine and is reprinted by permission from the writer. The massive outpouring of women saying #MeToo is both heartbreaking in its scope and encouraging in the bravery and solidarity it shows—12 million uses of #MeToo on social media in the first 24 hours, according to various reports. Commentators are rightly saying we need to … [Read more...]
Reclaiming My Eroticism After Sexual Assault
Rewriting and Reconnecting with the Flesh After my rape, I thought of my body as a series of open wounds/wounded openings sutured together. I had to learn how to rewrite the poems, the stories, the words, I wrapped around my flesh. After certain types of trauma, sometimes the can only way we can see our bodies is as spaces for harm, spaces for violence, spaces for … [Read more...]
