While We’re on the Subject of Rape
Let’s discuss recovery
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3 min readMay 12
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A day before E. Jean Carroll was awarded $5 million in a civil suit against Donald Trump for sexual abuse and defamation, I wrote about my own rape: My first sexual experience. On my 18th birthday. In a cornfield he drove into on the way back from the movies to my dorm at college. My head slammed into the steering wheel. Altogether, a grotesque perversion of what…
