By Karen Rain There’s no regaining that special type of innocence peculiar to those of us who grew up trusting institutions to act rationally and in the public interest, trusting that once injustice was seen to be done, it would be remedied. ~Laurie Penny The journalists, they thanked me for my courage, but what they …
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By Bethany Sharp Lying on the long grass in the parkland of Severndroog Folly in Shooters Hill, I spoke on the phone to a strange woman about the events of childhood sexual abuse. I didn’t want to take the call at my house-share in case anyone overheard; I trusted that the wind wouldn’t carry much …
By Ems When you have been treated from a painfully young age into adulthood, as an object in existence for men’s pleasure and enjoyment (nonconsensually), people do not realise how the lessons you internalise from this stay with you. Always. Yes, you can heal. You can identify the mistruths. You can rewire and re-write your …
By Evangeline Del Cisne I am a survivor of childhood abuse, as well as multiple abusive relationships in adulthood. Lately, I’ve been thinking about how my experience of seeking help became just another trauma for me to heal. As soon as I left my abusive household, I started to experience symptoms of PTSD; panic attacks, …
By Naroa Hammerson I allowed myself to fully grieve when I realised that I do not want my rapist to go to prison. When I tell people this, they often look at me like I’m naïve. This pisses me off for tworeasons. Firstly, it is my rape we are talking about. Other people’s opinions of my livedexperience are …
THE DISOBEDIENT SURVIVORS are looking for short stories, articles and pieces of writing aboutYOUR EXPERIENCESas someone who identifies as a survivor or who has experienced sexual violence/abuse/assault or rape. Themes:Stories of how you don’t fit the stereotype of survivor or that challenge the narrative of survivor/victim (or your struggles with this/others responses to this etc.) …
By Bryony Jade Ball, co-founder of SLEEC First Published in Issue 5 of “Lumpen: A Journal for Poor and Working Class Writers” As survivors of rape and sexual violence from working-class backgrounds, support for our trauma recovery was limited. Access to resources to help healing was minimal and any financial support, including applying for incapacity/disability …
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By the Disobedient Survivors We as survivors stand with our sisters not just our cis-ters! As survivors we feel it is imperative to make a statement in response to JK Rowling’s toxic views on trans and gender non conforming people (specifically seeing trans women as a threat and not accepting the identities and experiences of …
By The Disobedient Survivors Fuck filling out monitoring and evaluation forms, fuck being asked leading questions on feedback forms, fuck numbering from 1-10 my improvement and recovery from trauma each week, fuck being made into a case study, fuck being told I can’t use my real name when sharing my experience, fuck seeing my identity …