Again.
( Content Warning: This post discusses sexual violence.) Yes, I’m going to be mirroring back out what women are saying all over the internet, in person, and on social media. Collage from the zine "She's A Shooting Star" - 2022. And, yes, most of us are tired. Every time there’s a story in the news of a husband drugging his wife to rape her in the middle of the night, or a story of a woman being sexually assaulted by a man ( or two, or three, or seven ) while no one spoke up—yes, expect us to be pissed off and question everything around us. Expect us to not be comfortable sitting next to a man we don’t know on a bus, or be in a room alone with a man we do know. Expect us to question why and how we have certain men in authority and why they’re intent on taking away any rights we do have as women. And expect us to have our own personal traumas bubble up to the surface. Again. Again. Every time we hear of a story then talk about it in hushed tones over coffee with ou...