‘Written On The Body’: An Anthology Of Sexual Assault Survivor Stories
Collecting the voices of many who share similar experiences into a single tome gives each individual utterance more volume.
“Trauma frequently feels very personal, and sometimes that’s a good thing, but writing for this anthology helped my trauma feel less personal. I am one of many trans and nonbinary writers who are working on healing and we, as a squadron, can help ourselves, each other, and readers of the anthology heal. That feels powerful in a way I could not achieve alone.” — Anonymous
When a bone fractures, it sometimes doesn’t heal properly, resulting in extreme pain, discomfort, or even an inability to use the limb. It is often by revisiting an old wound — rebreaking the bone so the very marrow is exposed and resetting its wholeness — that the suffering may be alleviated.
The injury will have mended, but its pain is not forgotten.
For the writers of Written on the Body, an anthology of essays and poetry by trans and nonbinary survivors of sexual assault, revisiting their wounds, ripping them open, and peering inside to see what is broken—what is scar tissue, what is whole—is essential to their process of healing. The book, published in 2018 and edited by…
