In 2020, I really thought I’d be moving forward. But I’m still saying the same things I’ve been saying for the past five and ten years. The same thing other women have been saying for dozens of years; hundreds of years; over a thousand years. I have just graduated, with my undergraduate degree in political…
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How Women Can Help Men Who Have Suffered #MeToo Moments
There was a movie that was released a few years ago called Spotlight, which covers the investigative journalism that went into uncovering the scope of molestation within the Catholic Church worldwide. One of the points that was brought up when hearing out the victims of this international crisis was that boys were usually more often…
Mistaking a Woman’s Trauma as Bitterness
It’s been nineteen years since I witnessed the first physical altercation between a man and a woman. Mom and my brother’s dad. Fifteen years since I saw my brother choke one of Mom’s temporary husbands because of yet another domestic dispute. Five years since I, myself, was incarcerated for domestic violence because that boy I…
Wedding Night Nerves
I remember my first time being intimate. I was so scared and anxious about losing my virginity, spending countless hours researching what my first time should be like, but I never quite felt prepared. Truthfully, looking back now, not even 400 years of research could have prepared me for what was to come. Everybody wants…