By the time I started dating in high school, I’d already been sexually assaulted. Those early relationships were a little extra fraught for me—I’d only had the terminology to accurately describe what had happened to me for about a year, and the idea of talking about it in any detail
Read MoreI wonder, from time to time, about the men who assaulted me.
Read More[I wrote this post over the course of October and November and genuinely did not mean to put it up the night before my twenty-fourth birthday. Somewhere, the universe is laughing at me.] Last night (not actually last night), I lay in bed at 1am, clinging to my partner as
Read MoreBelow are a few of the resources I highly recommend for folks looking to fight the good fight. (By ‘a few,’ I mean over 70.)
Read MoreI’m a musician, but before I started on my first instrument, I was a dancer. And dancing saves my life.
Read MoreTW: sexual assault. There are some policy things and some society things you should know about if you’re going to help victims of sexual assault (even just casually). This is week 4 of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, so let’s talk about some of them.
Read MoreTW: sexual assault. Dance taught me a lot about how I should treat my body. It also taught me how others should.
Read MoreFor the young women I have yet to meet, a handful of things I wish I’d heard as I decided on a music program.
Read More[TW: sexual assault.] Dear Ms. Bialik, Most of the time I am a fan of your work.
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