I’ve been trawling my way through the kindle unlimited mines, and there is a thing I am seeing that is uncomfortably common that I do not want to be common, and that thing is extremely poor and shallow handling of the aftermath of rape.
Here are some disclaimers: I am someone who has been raped. I do not speak for all people who have been raped, and some of them may disagree with me, and that is OK ™ because different viewpoints are valuable things. Mostly I just want people to think for more than, like, five seconds when they decide to invoke rape in a story. Here is one viewpoint in service of that.
on writing about rape
Published
just moving along like everyone else 