post #1: who i am + dear facebook
Most of those of you who are reading this probably came here from the Facebook page “Tell OWS to Stop Harboring a Rapist.” If you did, thanks for your continued support. If you stumbled here...
View Articlepost #2: finally opening up/rape, kidnapping and fractured identity
There is a MASSIVE trigger warning attached to this. For those of you who come from "Tell OWS to Stop Harboring a Rapist," you may remember that a few months back I said that I might open up about what...
View Articlepost #3: FBRape and psychological damage
Today is the first day of Feminist Admins’ Global Protest against #FBRape. I’m really overwhelmed by the support I’ve gotten via Twitter, and I want to also send a big thank you to The Social Network...
View Articlepost #4: staying in the middle of the street
The following quote from Emilie Autumn’s The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls has always been one of my favorites.“I can explain myself: If you want to be safe, walk in the middle of the street. I’m...
View Articlepost #5: i want the WHOLE street/this is not over
I was rereading what I wrote yesterday, and I realized something.Yes, I want what I referred to as “the middle of the street” back. The opportunity to speak out. The opportunity to be louder than...
View Articlepost #6: mr. hyde has always been dr. jekyll/the nick ross reaction reaction
I’m sure that by now all of you have heard the horrendous remarks of Nick Ross, former Crimewatch presenter for BBC. If you haven’t, you can find them here. Ross’s recent book Crime: How to Solve It...
View Articlepost #7: why Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" is offensive and unacceptable
IMPORTANT UPDATE JUNE 17: Musogny, an organization I co-created in order to combat misogyny in contemporary music, has just started a change.org petition asking the BBC to stop broadcasting "Blurred...
View Articlepost #8: prosecuting your rapist is not fun. stop thinking it is.
I’m not going to discuss details from my recent rape in March, because I don’t want to compromise the prosecution I’m going through with. Nevertheless, I feel I do have a right (and a bit of an...
View Articlepost #9: Tyler, we're not done.
As many of you may know, I’ve recently been involved with starting a project to combat misogyny in music. We’re called Musogyny. You can find us here on Facebook, or tweet us @Musogyny.This has been an...
View Articlepost #10: leave me alone, I'm here on work!
I”m currently in Venice, doing some things I really need to do to write my graduate dissertation. I figured it would be a fun trip: it’s a really difficult city to get around if you’ve got mobility...
View Articlepost #11: on being ladylike, or not, and why, and how
My mother is the ultimate hostess. If a houseguest is staying--even a family member or close friend--all the stops must be pulled out. The house is always beautifully clean, a bowl of fruit set out for...
View Articlepost #12: the first rape and the transcription
(Notice: As of yesterday, there is a Facebook page which you can use to follow my blog posts here. Thank you.)This is perhaps the post in which I bare more of myself than I ever have before.The...
View Articlepost #13: stop telling me i "revictimize" myself.
As everyone who’s read this blog before knows, I have been raped multiple times.At this point, I’ve been raped enough times that a “victim advocate” (I’m so sick of being called a “victim”) has told me...
View Articlepost #14: waiting for information/terror
Please note a trigger warning on this post for discussion of passive suicidality. Thank you.I was not going to post about this because it’s a topic about which I feel incredibly vulnerable. Not that my...
View Articlepost #15: where I've been, and how I came back.
TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE APOLOGY/SUICIDALITYThe last time I blogged, in early August, I wrote about how terrified I was about meeting police officers in order to find out whether or not my rape case was...
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