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“ ”Perhaps the most horrifying thing about nonconsensual sex is that, in an instant, it erases you. Your own desires, your safety and well-being, your ownership of the body that may very well have been the only thing you ever felt sure you owned — all of it becomes irrelevant, even nonexistent. You don’t need to be a helpless, innocent child to be changed by that.
About Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an American writer, professor, editor, and commentator.
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I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.
I am a real survivor because I survived, even if some days it feels like I didn't survive at all.
What about other women of color? For Hispanic and Latina women, Indian women, Middle Eastern women, Asian women, their absence in popular culture is even more pronounced, their need for relief just as palpable and desperate.