A poem on the day my sister and I were forced to grow up.
Tag: sexual abuse
The First Question
A poem about how the first question someone asks when a crime against a woman takes place is always aimed at the woman herself.
A Rape Survivor’s Memories II
'In the memories of her adolescence / A desperate fly always tries to fly...'
How Women Holding Flowers Held Japanese Courts to Account
For a protest movement to succeed, it must fit within the cultural landscape of its environment.
A Rape Survivor’s Memories
She tries to heal. But the cotton balls that she put on her wounds after those dark encounters of childhood only grow with time.
UP: 13-Year-Old Dies by Suicide After Gang-Rape; Family Alleges Police Inaction, Coercion
The SHO of a police station was removed and the investigating officer suspended for alleged negligence.
‘Blonde’: Hollywood Exploited Marilyn Monroe, This Film Does the Same
Was Monroe always a victim, did she have no agency?
Inside the Four Walls of Intimate Partner Violence in India
Examining the many forms of abuse hidden away from prying eyes in homes across India.
What Netflix’s ‘The Most Hated Man on the Internet’ Gets Right (And Wrong) About ‘Revenge Porn’
The women in the series were not stereotyped as being naïve or at fault, as they often are in media coverage.
A Nightmare
The poet talks about a nightmare from sexual assault that has returned to haunt him after years.