This is a zine about surviving sexual violence. We often talk a lot about the immediate trauma and not so much about how, with the years, it can be something that stays with you without defining you. It’s part of our histories for so many of us, and it remains difficult to talk about. So although I wrote this in 2018 and I don’t fully agree with everything I said in it, I humbly offer it, unedited, in its entirety in the hopes it is of use.

There are some “content notes” on the second page.

I will be adding descriptions of the images and reprduce the text below the pages for if you're struggling with small lettering or using a screen reader, but that's not ready yet.

Scarred Defiant for Life

You will not always feel this way.