If you're still breathing, you're still fighting, and you will survive. Seven weeks before I was assaulted, I was living in the comfort...

Brittle bones breaking, Severed stones suspended, Uniformed unbalance uniting, Icarian ideas of identity. Dangerous desires for...

I minimize my experience all the time. It wasn’t until I saw RAINN feature a woman with a similar story to mine that I realized maybe I...

It’s been a few years, yet sometimes I feel as though it was yesterday. I think the most difficult part of my experience is accepting...

I wake up everyday with the reminder that it’s possible to not be in control of your own body.

HE is not YOU and you have the power to grow into a strong, beautiful, brave person. Your body is your body before it is anyone else’s.

I was raped by someone I’d know for ten years. I was raped in the home of someone I called my best friend. I thought of my rapist as a...

I was 14 or 15. He was my best friend’s father, and a retired church minister. He spoiled his kids, and one day he also started spoiling...

I was 20 and using Tinder for the first time. I’d only kissed three boys before that semester and it was exhilarating to just make out...

When you say "I didn’t mean it like that," you do. And here’s why. Words are the most important tool humankind has to work with. Words...

New York New York The city of dreams, they say (And they’re right- I love this city to its core) but what they don’t sell you on so much...

when she was 7, a boy pushed her on the playground she fell headfirst into the dirt and came up with a mouthful of gravel and lines of...

All of us, the dancers, lend our voices to stop victim blaming and to start a conversation about the severity of sexual assault. Watch...

"Stranger danger" was the slogan of my childhood. It has served its place in my life and still does to this day. When I was 5 years old,...

I remember not being able to feel my heartbeat when it was over. "I'm a man now," he said. I was raped a few weeks before my senior year...

It's been almost 6 years since my life changed and I chose to move forward. I won't live my life in fear of what happened. I will do my...

My truth is one I still live in every day. It's full of anger, shame, insecurities, disappointment, and self-loathing. My body still...

Growing up, I was taught to trust my family always. Two summers ago my cousin asked if I would "take it off" for him. I laughed. I blamed...

It happened the July going into my senior year of high school. A party, just like all the others that summer. Same people. Same liquor....

I am a nursing infant—dependent, fragile as a silk ribbon bow. My first word comes later on: baby. I am now a kindergartner, choosing my...